Additional information about 粱
說文解字: 【粱】，米名也。 〔小徐本無「也」。〕 从米、梁省聲。 【呂張切】
- Criteria
- COARSE
1. The dominant word for anything physically or otherwise coarsE and not fine or subtle is cū 粗 / 麤 (ant. xì 細 "fine" and jīng 精 "subtle and exquisite"). See also ORDINARY
2. Shū 疏 (ant. liáng 粱 "exquisite (of food)") refers typically to poor quality coarse food.
- MILLET
Sù 粟 is the most common word for foxtail millet (Setaria italica), and it refers to it as a food and grain.
Liáng 粱 is a fine millet grain.
Hé 禾 is 1) a term for foxtail millet (Setaria italica) as one regards the form of a plant. 2) a specific word for a stalk of millet.
Pēi 秠 refers to a kind of dark millet (Panicum miliaceum) with two grains in one husk.
Jì 稷 is an ancient specific term for foxtail millet (Setaria italica), having the religious nuance.
Shǔ 黍 is a general term for millet of Panicum miliaceum kind.
Lù 稑 refers to foxtail millet (Setaria italica) which is sewn late and ripe early.
Qǐ 芑 is a word for a fine millet grain used in antiquity.
- Word relations
- Oppos: (MILLET)麤 / 粗/FOOD
Shū 疏, sūn 飧, cū 粗 refer to crude foodstuffs, grain-based or vegetable based.