Chinese symbol for “cereals”
粮食
liáng shi
Traditional: 糧食
foodstuff; cereals; 种 (zhǒng)
The closest CC-CEDICT match for cereals is 粮食 (liáng shi), defined as: foodstuff; cereals; 种 (zhǒng).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “cereals”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 粮食.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 粮仓 (糧倉) | liáng cāng | granary; barn |
| 口粮 (口糧) | kǒu liáng | ration |
| 食粮 (食糧) | shí liáng | food cereals |
| 商品粮 (商品糧) | shāng pǐn liáng | commodity grain (grain produced as a commodity rather than for self-sufficiency) |
| 杂粮 (雜糧) | zá liáng | grain crops other than rice and wheat |
| 食品 | shí pǐn | foodstuff; food; provisions |
| 食物 | shí wù | food |
| 美食 | měi shí | culinary delicacy; fine food |
See also: Japanese symbol for “cereals”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.