糧

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See also: 粮
糧 U+7CE7, 糧
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7CE7
← 糦
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 糨 →
糧 U+F97B, 糧
CJK COMPATIBILITY IDEOGRAPH-F97B
← 梁
 		CJK Compatibility Ideographs 良 →

Translingual

Han character

糧 (Kangxi radical 119, 米+12, 18 strokes, cangjie input 火木日一土 (FDAMG), four-corner 96914, composition ⿰米量)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 913, character 7
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 27132
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1340, character 14
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3160, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7CE7

Chinese

trad. 糧
simp. 粮
alternative forms 粮
𥣷
𩞯
𣊼
⿰米卜

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (量) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
糧 *raŋ
量 *raŋ, *raŋs

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *raŋ) : semantic 米 + phonetic 量 (OC *raŋ, *raŋs).

Pronunciation

Note:
  • niû/niô͘ - vernacular;
  • liông/liâng - literary.
Note:
  • nion5 - Shantou, Jieyang, Chaoyang;
  • niên5 - Chaozhou, Chenghai.
Rime
Character 糧
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 陽 (105)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 呂章切
Baxter ljang
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/lɨɐŋ/
Pan
Wuyun 		/liɐŋ/
Shao
Rongfen 		/liɑŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/lɨaŋ/
Li
Rong 		/liaŋ/
Wang
Li 		/lĭaŋ/
Bernhard
Karlgren 		/li̯aŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		liáng
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex 		loeng4
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 糧
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		liáng
Middle
Chinese 		‹ ljang ›
Old
Chinese 		/*aŋ/
English grain, provisions

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 糧
Reading # 1/1
No. 8063
Phonetic
component 		量
Rime
group 		陽
Rime
subdivision 		0
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese 		/*raŋ/
Notes 同糧

Definitions

糧

  1. grain; provisions; food
  2. (Cantonese) salary (Classifier: 份 c)
  3. a surname

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

糧

(Jōyō kanji)

  1. food, provisions

Readings

  • Go-on: ろう (rō, Jōyō †)
  • Kan-on: りょう (ryō, Jōyō)
  • Kun: かて (kate, 糧, Jōyō)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
糧
かて
Grade: S
kun'yomi
For pronunciation and definitions of 糧 – see the following entry.
【かて】
food
(figurative) guiding material for future endeavors
(This term, 糧, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

糧 (eumhun 양식 량 (yangsik ryang), word-initial (South Korea) 양식 양 (yangsik yang))

  1. hanja form? of ] (“food, grain, provisions”)

Vietnamese

Han character

糧: Hán Nôm readings: lương

  1. chữ Hán form of lương (“food supplies; salary”).
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