粟米

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Chinese

grain; millet rice; metre
trad. (粟米)
simp. #(粟米)
anagram 米粟

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (16) (4)
Final () (8) (39)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () III IV
Fanqie
Baxter sjowk mejX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/sɨok̚/ /meiX/
Pan
Wuyun
/siok̚/ /meiX/
Shao
Rongfen
/siok̚/ /mɛiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/suawk̚/ /mɛjX/
Li
Rong
/siok̚/ /meiX/
Wang
Li
/sĭwok̚/ /mieiX/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/si̯wok̚/ /mieiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
su
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
suk1 mai5
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
Middle
Chinese
‹ sjowk › ‹ mejX ›
Old
Chinese
/*ok/ /*(C.)mˁjʔ/
English grain (rice or millet) in husk millet or rice grains, dehusked and polished

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 12111 9003
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*soɡ/ /*miːʔ/

Noun

粟米

  1. (chiefly Cantonese) maize; corn
  2. (regional) foxtail millet (Setaria italica)
  3. (literary) grain; cereal
  4. method used to calculate the amount of a trade
  5. (Hengyang Xiang) sorghum

Synonyms

  • (corn):
  • (foxtail millet):
  • (grain):
  • (sorghum):

Derived terms