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黄占

黃占
huángzhàn
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (agriculture / dialect) short name for yellow-grained 占米 (zhanmi) rice varieties - traditional early-ripening Cantonese and Southeast-Asian rice cultivars such as 黄占米

Examples

HSK 6
黄占米煮饭比较香。
Huángzhàn mǐ zhǔfàn bǐjiào xiāng.
Huangzhan rice cooks up fragrantly.
HSK 7-9
岭南旧时种的黄占产量稳定。
Lǐngnán jiùshí zhòng de huángzhàn chǎnliàng wěndìng.
The old Lingnan yellow-zhan rice variety gave a stable yield.

Tips

usage
Not a common headword. 占 in this sense is an old rice classifier (see 占城稻, the Champa rice imported into Song-dynasty China), surviving in regional variety names like 黄占米, 白占, 丝苗占. Its presence in a news frequency list is almost certainly from agricultural or feed-ingredient articles.

Stroke Order

黄 huáng
占 zhàn