菽粟

Chinese

			grain; millet
trad. (菽粟)		菽	粟
simp. #(菽粟)		菽	粟

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): shūsù

  (Zhuyin): ㄕㄨ ㄙㄨˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): suk⁶ suk¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: shūsù
    • Zhuyin: ㄕㄨ ㄙㄨˋ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: shusù
    • Wade–Giles: shu¹-su⁴
    • Yale: shū-sù
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: shusuh
    • Palladius: шусу (šusu)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ʂu⁵⁵ su⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: suk⁶ suk¹
    • Yale: suhk sūk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: suk⁹ suk⁷
    • Guangdong Romanization: sug⁶ sug¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /sʊk̚² sʊk̚⁵/

Noun

菽粟

1. (dated) beans and grain
2. (dated, figurative) grain; cereal

Synonyms

• (grain; cereal):

• 米粟 (mǐsù) (literary)
• 米糧／米粮 (mǐliáng)
• 粟米 (sùmǐ) (literary)
• 糧食／粮食 (liángshí)

 

Derived terms

• 布帛菽粟 (bùbóshūsù)