Additional information about 糧
說文解字: 【糧】，穀也。 〔小徐本作「穀食也。」〕 从米、量聲。 【呂張切】
- Criteria
- FOOD
1. The general term for food is shí 食 and this includes food as well as drink and can refer generally to one's livelihood, also to staple foods as opposed to delicacies involving meat, such as kuài 膾 "minced meat, raw".
2. Fàn 飯 which refers to basic foodstuff, usually rice and cereals.
3. Shū 疏, sūn 飧, cū 粗 refer to crude foodstuffs, grain-based or vegetable based.
4. Liáng 糧 refers to grain-based ordinary plain food.
5. Hūn 葷 refers to non-vegetarian food.
NB: This group needs to be elaborated.