noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (classical) grain offered in sacrifice; millet
  2. 2 (classical) rice cake

Examples

Shàngdì zhī zī chéng yúshì hū chū.
The grain offered to the High God comes from here.

Tips

history
Not used independently in modern Chinese; it survives in the classical ritual term 粢盛 (grain offerings in sacrificial vessels). The top is the phonetic, shared with and 姿.
register
Classical and ritual only — confined to old texts on sacrifice, never modern speech.

Components

radical
rice; grain
The grain radical sits below and marks as a cereal — the millet or rice presented to the gods.
phonetic
order; next
On top, supplies the sound. Its old initial yields the zī reading here, the same phonetic that drives , 姿 and .

Stroke Order