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Kun reading compounds

  • 粳 【うる】 nonglutinous grain (not sticky enough to make mochi rice cakes)
  • うるち米 【うるちまい】 normal rice (as opposed to mochi rice), non-sticky rice

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
geng1, jing1
Korean:
gaeng

Spanish

Portuguese

French

3478 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
26967 Morohashi
4408 New Nelson (John Haig)
6b7.1 The Kanji Dictionary
1-6-7 SKIP code
9194.6 Four corner code
1-68-75 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7cb3 Unicode hex code

12 strokes
Radical:
rice
Parts:
西
millet
Kun:
あわもみ
On:
ゾクショクソク
Jinmeiyō kanji, used in names
2146 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 粟 【ゾク】 millet, grain, stipend in rice, 10,000th of a shaku
  • 粟粒 【アワツブ】 millet grain, something extremely tiny
  • 稲粟 【トウゾク】 rice and millet
  • 滄海の一粟 【ソウカイノイチゾク】 drop in the bucket, drop in the ocean, one grain of millet in a vast ocean

Kun reading compounds

  • 粟 【あわ】 foxtail millet (Setaria italica), Italian millet (also Hungarian, German)
  • 粟おこし 【あわおこし】 millet brittle
  • 糯粟 【もちあわ】 glutinous millet (for making mochi and certain types of alcohol)
  • 濡れ手で粟 【ぬれてであわ】 easy profit

Readings

Japanese names:
あ、 さっ、 そう
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
su4
Korean:
sog

Spanish

  • mijo

Portuguese

French

4277 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
1763 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3326 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2343 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
26922 Morohashi
4403 New Nelson (John Haig)
2654 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2696 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6b6.6 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-6 SKIP code
1090.4 Four corner code
1-16-32 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7c9f Unicode hex code