粟 — Chinese character
粟
sù
oats, millet, barley
- Pinyin
- sù
- Radical
- 119 ⽶ (Rice)
- Strokes
- 12
- Components
- 覀 米
- Formation
- ideographic — A millet plant 米 bearing grain 覀
- Japanese
- 粟 as a kanji
Common words with 粟
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 罂粟 (罌粟) | yīng sù | opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) |
| 粟米 | sù mǐ | corn; maize (dialect) |
| 沧海一粟 (滄海一粟) | cāng hǎi yī sù | (lit.) one grain floating on the ocean (idiom); (fig.) a drop in the ocean |
| 粟子 | sù zi | (dialect) millet |
| 包粟 | bāo sù | (dialect) corn; maize |
| 布帛菽粟 | bù bó shū sù | (lit.) cloth, silk, beans and grain (idiom); (fig.) food and clothing; daily necessities |
| 脱粟 (脫粟) | tuō sù | grain kernel (after threshing and winnowing) |
| 苞粟 | bāo sù | variant of 包粟 (bāo sù) |
| 起粟 | qǐ sù | to get goose bumps |
粟 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Analects 4 · Art of War 1 · Mencius 16 · Zhuangzi 4
- Analects 6.3
- Analects 12.11
- Art of War 9.34
- Mencius 1A.3
- Mencius 2B.1
- Mencius 3A.4
- Mencius 3B.4
- Mencius 3B.10
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.