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Guinea corn at monday market kaduna state 02
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Dorcas Atule
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Guinea corn at monday market kaduna state 01
By
Dorcas Atule
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CC BY-SA 4.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Cropped and resized

高粱

gāoliang
noun #47,474

Meanings

  1. 1 sorghum
  2. 2 kaoliang (the grain used to make baijiu)

About the ingredient

粮食 Grains and noodles

A tall grain crop, common in the northeast, with round seeds that are often red or brown. Much of it goes into baijiu and vinegar; the hulled grain is also cooked like rice or ground into flour for noodles.

Also called  高粱米

Examples

HSK 4
Zhè piàn dì zhòng de shì gāoliang.
This field is planted with sorghum.
HSK 5
Gāoliang jiǔ dùshù hěn gāo.
Sorghum liquor is very high-proof.

In Pop Culture

《红高粱》 《 Hóng Gāoliang 》
Red Sorghum
Mo Yan's 1986 novella and Zhang Yimou's 1987 film debut (Golden Bear, Berlin 1988) set in Shandong sorghum fields during the Japanese occupation.

Stroke Order

高 gāo
粱 liáng