Chinese Character Wiki

糗

qiǔ

parched wheat or rice

Rice 米 that stinks 臭; 臭 also provides the pronunciation

Components
米 meaning component

米  Meaning component

mǐ

  

rice

臭 sound,meaning component

臭  Sound Meaning component

chòu, xiù

  

smell

Evolution

糗 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
糗 Clerical script Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical script

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)
糗 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

糗  

qiǔ

parched wheat or rice; broken grain; dry rations (for a journey); (dialect) (of noodles etc) to become mush (from overcooking); (coll.) embarrassing; embarrassment

糗  

Qiǔ

surname Qiu

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.6979% of movies

3081st most common character in movies

6352nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

16

Unicode

U+7CD7

Shuowen

“糗，熬米麥也。从米，臭聲。”


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