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Kanji Detail for 黍 - "millet, unit of measure"
黍
- Meaning
黍 means "millet, unit of measure."
Millet - An annual grass of the family Poaceae; one of the five grains.
Unit of measure - A unit based on millet grains; one grain's length equals one fen, one hundred grains' weight equals one zhu, twelve hundred grains' volume equals one yue.
- Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:
KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary
millet
Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters
glutinous millet; Kangxi radical 202
CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary
broomcorn millet; glutinous millet
Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data
broomcorn millet; glutinous millet
XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary
A grain-type plant. The glutinous type of millet. What northerners call 黃米子 (yellow rice) is this. Planted during the Great Heat period. Suitable for dry field cultivation. Leaves are thin, long, and pointed. Grains have red, white, yellow, and black types. The grains are uniform without size variation. Hence in ancient times, people used them as a standard for defining inches and measuring diameters. One hundred grains lengthwise equals ten inches of the construction ruler. One hundred grains widthwise equals eight inches and one fen of the construction ruler. Also, in ancient weight systems, one hundred grains made a zhu, twenty-four zhu made a liang. This equals half a liang today.
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