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籼

秈
xiān
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 long-grained non-glutinous rice
  2. 2 indica rice

Examples

籼米的米粒细长，没有粘性。
Xiān
Long-grained rice has slender grains and is not sticky.
南方多种植籼稻。
Nánfāng xiān
Southern China grows a lot of long-grained rice.

Tips

usage
籼 rice (indica) has long, slender, non-sticky grains, common in southern China. Contrast with 粳 rice (japonica), which has short, plump, stickier grains grown in the north.

Components

radical
米 mǐ
rice
The rice radical 米 on the left makes the meaning explicit: this is a kind of rice, specifically the long-grained indica variety.
phonetic
山 shān
mountain
山 provides the sound, shifted from shān to xiān. It serves only as the phonetic marker and adds no meaning to this rice term.

Stroke Order

籼 xiān