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粒

粒

Translingual

Han character

粒 (radical 119 米+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火木卜廿 (FDYT), four-corner 90918, composition ⿰米立)

References

  • KangXi: page 907, character 22
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26884
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1333, character 7
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3145, character 12
  • Unihan data for U+7C92

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 粒

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 粒
Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (立) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
涖 *rɯːbs, *rɯbs
莅 *rɯbs, *rɯbs
蒞 *rɯbs
位 *ɢʷrɯbs
拉 *ruːb
菈 *ruːb
颯 *sluːb
立 *rɯb
粒 *rɯb
笠 *ɡ·rɯb
砬 *rɯb
岦 *rɯb
苙 *ɡ·rɯb, *ɡrɯb
鴗 *rɯb
雴 *r̥ʰɯb
泣 *kʰrɯb

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 粒
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 來 (37)
Final (韻) 緝 (141)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) III
Fanqie 力入切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /liɪp̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /lip̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ljep̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /lip̚/
Li
Rong		 /liəp̚/
Wang
Li		 /lĭĕp̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /li̯əp̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 lì
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 粒
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 lì
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ lip ›
Old
Chinese		 /*p.rəp/
English grains of rice

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 粒
Reading # 1/1
No. 7870
Phonetic
component		 立
Rime
group		 緝
Rime
subdivision		 1
Corresponding
MC rime		 立
Old
Chinese		 /*rɯb/

Definitions

粒

  1. grain
  2. small particle
  3. Classifier for grainlike objects: granule, grain, particle  ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

Compounds

  • 半粒
  • 反粒子 (fǎnlìzǐ)
  • 團粒／团粒
  • 基本粒子
  • 微粒
  • 晶粒生長／晶粒生长
  • 杯水粒粟
  • 玉粒
  • 番麥粒／番麦粒
  • 米粒
  • 米粒之珠
  • 粒兒／粒儿
  • 粒子 (lìzǐ)
  • 粒度
  • 粒米束薪
  • 粒米狼戾
  • 粒肥
  • 粒變岩／粒变岩
  • 粒選／粒选
  • 粒雪

Japanese

Kanji

粒

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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Readings

Compounds

Noun

粒 ‎(hiragana つぶ, romaji tsubu)

  1. grain, bead, drop

Counter

粒 ‎(hiragana つぶ, romaji -tsubu)

  1. counter for small round objects including grains, seeds, pills, drops

Korean

Hanja

粒 • ‎(rip, ip) (hangeul 립, 입, revised rip, ip, McCune-Reischauer rip, ip, Yale lip, ip)

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Vietnamese

Han character

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