漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements
糧: provisions, food
Also: bread
JLPT N118 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met
米 carries the meaning · 量 gives the sound
18 strokes
Small seal · Qin Today
Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Two readings, and the words that use each
リョウryou · on'yomi · in compounds
- 食糧しょくりょうfood (esp. staple food such as rice or…
- 食糧庁しょくりょうちょうfood agency
- 糧食りょうしょくprovisions
ロウrou · on'yomi
- 兵糧ひょうろう
Also read かて, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.
成り立ち
Where it comes from
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Fuel for the soul! This radical represents the essential nourishment of the rice harvest and the intricate detail of individual grains.”
繋がり
Connections
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseSimplified 粮 · traditional, as in Japanese · liáng
Japan keeps the traditional form 糧; mainland China simplifies it to 粮.
- Simplified
- 粮 mainland China, Singapore
- Traditional
- 糧 Taiwan, Hong Kong
Pinyin liáng most common reading
Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.
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