糧

🇹🇼🇭🇰🇯🇵🇰🇷

粮

🇨🇳

provisions

HSK 10 N1

Objects →Food

liáng

リョウ、ロウ

かて

량

Phonosemantic compound. 米 represents the meaning and 量 represents the sound.

Components

Traditional (糧)

米 rice+ 量 quantity =

糧 provisions

米 Meaning component

mǐ rice

hulled or husked uncooked rice

量 Phonetic component

liàng quantity

measure, quantity, capacity

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Simplified (粮)

米 rice+ 良 high-quality =

粮 grain, food

米 Meaning component

mǐ rice

hulled or husked uncooked rice

良 Phonetic component

liáng high-quality

good, virtuous, respectable

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Notes

Historical Evolution

Bronze

Spring and Autumn (771-476 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Western Han dynasty (202 BC-9 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

糧

Regular

Modern

Chinese

粮 / 糧 [liáng]

grain; food; provisions; agricultural tax paid in grain

Japanese

糧、粮かて、りょう、かりて (old) 同音

noun

food; provisions
nourishment (mental, spiritual, etc.); sustenance (e.g. of one's life); source of encouragement

Example Sentences

🇯🇵 (3)

そこにいる間、生活の糧はどうするのだ。

What will you live on while you are there?

渇した者に水を、飢えたる者には糧を与えよ。

Give water to the thirsty and food to the hungry.

もしも、音楽が愛の糧であるならば、奏で続けよ。

If music be the food of love, play on.

Japanese Names

糧はぜ

Haze surname

CHINESE WORDS (55)

粮食 [liángshi] #10,421

foodstuff

口粮 [kǒuliáng] #32,457

ration

粗粮 [cūliáng] #30,082

coarse grains (maize, sorghum etc)

粮仓 [liángcāng] #31,565

granary

干粮 [gānliáng] #33,756

rations (to take on expedition)

粮草 [liángcǎo] #39,884

army provisions

食粮 [shíliáng] #35,525

food cereals

粮票 [liángpiào] #39,442

coupons for food or grain used in a PRC economic program c. 1955-1993

弹尽粮绝 [dànjìnliángjué] #37,272

out of ammunition and no food left (idiom); in desperate straits

五粮液 [Wǔliángyè] #17,133

Wuliangye liquor

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JAPANESE WORDS (36)

⭐ 食糧 [しょくりょう] #9,632

food (esp. staple food such as rice or wheat)

⭐ 兵糧 [ひょうろう] #25,545

(army) provisions

⭐ 糧食 [りょうしょく] #35,032

provisions

食糧事情 [しょくりょうじじょう] #47,102

food situation

食糧難 [しょくりょうなん] #57,912

food shortage

兵糧攻め [ひょうろうぜめ] #58,932

starvation tactics

日々の糧 [ひびのかて] #66,701

one's daily bread

生活の糧 [せいかつのかて] #70,334

source of one's livelihood

糧秣 [りょうまつ] #78,270

military provisions and cavalry horse fodder

食糧危機 [しょくりょうきき] #84,267

food crisis

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KOREAN WORDS (3)