黍 — Chinese character
黍
shǔ
broomcorn millet; glutinous millet
- Pinyin
- shǔ
- Radical
- 202 ⿉ (Millet)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 禾 人 氺
- Formation
- ideographic — Grain 禾 that can be fermented to make wine 氺
- Japanese
- 黍 as a kanji
Common words with 黍
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 玉蜀黍 | yù shǔ shǔ | corn |
| 怪蜀黍 | guài shǔ shǔ | see 怪叔叔 (guài shū shu) |
| 黍鹀 (黍鵐) | shǔ wú | (bird species of China) corn bunting (Emberiza calandra) |
黍 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 1 · Mencius 3
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.