菽 — Chinese character
菽
shū
legumes
- Pinyin
- shū
- Radical
- 140 ⾋ (Grass)
- Strokes
- 11
- Components
- 艹 叔
- Formation
- pictophonetic — plant; meaning component 艹; sound component 叔
- Japanese
- 菽 as a kanji
Common words with 菽
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 不辨菽麦 (不辨菽麥) | bù biàn shū mài | lit. cannot tell beans from wheat (idiom); fig. ignorant of practical matters |
| 布帛菽粟 | bù bó shū sù | (lit.) cloth, silk, beans and grain (idiom); (fig.) food and clothing; daily necessities |
English words written with 菽
菽 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 2 · Zhuangzi 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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