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粮

liáng

HSK 5 Character Traditional 糧

What 粮 means

1. grain
2. food
3. provisions
4. agricultural tax paid in grain

Example sentences

• 狗粮很贵。
  Dog food is expensive.
• 汤姆吃猫粮。
  Tom eats cat food.
• 你买猫粮了吗？
  Nǐ mǎi māoliáng le ma?
  Did you buy cat food?
• 粮食供应十分充足。
  There is an abundant supply of foodstuffs.
• 怎么样才能让我的狗吃狗粮？
  Zěnmeyàng cáinéng ràng wǒ de gǒu chī gǒuliáng?
  How do I get my dog to eat dog food?
• 怎幺样才能让我的狗吃狗粮？
  How do I get my dog to eat dog food?

Words starting with 粮

• 粮食liáng shifoodstuff; cereals
• 粮票liáng piàocoupons for food or grain used in a PRC economic program c. 1955-1993
• 粮农liáng nóngfood and agriculture; grain farmer
• 粮仓liáng cānggranary; barn; fig. bread basket (of fertile agricultural land)
• 粮草liáng cǎoarmy provisions; rations and fodder
• 粮库liáng kùgrain depot
• 粮店liáng diàngrain store
• 粮站liáng zhàngrain supply station
• 粮行liáng hánggrain retailer (in former times)
• 粮道liáng dàoroute for providing foodstuff
• 粮食作物liáng shi zuò wùgrain crops; cereals
• 粮荒liáng huāngfamine; critical shortage of grain
• 粮栈liáng zhànwholesale grain store
• 粮饷liáng xiǎngarmy provisions
• 粮秣liáng mòprovisions (e.g. military); forage; fodder

Words containing 粮

• 干粮gān liángrations (to take on expedition)
• 口粮kǒu liángration
• 五粮液Wǔ liáng yèWuliangye liquor; Five Grain liquor
• 食粮shí liángfood cereals
• 杂粮zá liánggrain crops other than rice and wheat
• 粗粮cū liángcoarse grains (maize, sorghum etc)
• 公粮gōng liánggrain collected by the government as tax
• 钱粮qián liángland tax; money and grain (given as tax or tribute)
• 出粮chū liáng(dialect) to pay salary
• 断粮duàn liángto run out of food
• 产粮chǎn liángto grow crops; food growing
• 精粮jīng liángrefined grain (rice, wheat etc)
• 纳粮nà liángto pay taxes in kind (rice, cloth etc)
• 绝粮jué liángprovisions are exhausted; out of food
• 缺粮quē liángto lack food supplies
• 军粮jūn liángarmy provisions
• 余粮yú liángsurplus grain
• 交粮本jiāo liáng běnto hand in one's ration cards; to die
• 储备粮chǔ bèi liánggrain reserves
• 吃公粮chī gōng liángto be on the government payroll
• 商品粮shāng pǐn liángcommodity grain (grain produced as a commodity rather than for self-sufficiency)
• 救济粮jiù jì liángrelief grain; emergency provisions
• 产粮区chǎn liáng qūfood growing area
• 返销粮fǎn xiāo liánggrain bought by the state and resold to areas undergoing a grain shortage

Characters built on 良

These share the phonetic component 良 (liáng), which is why their readings rhyme. Learning them as a family is far cheaper than learning them one at a time.

• 娘niángmother; young lady; (colloquial) effeminate
• 酿niàngto ferment; to brew; to make honey (of bees)
• 踉liángused in 跳踉

Characters that look like 粮

Easy to confuse on sight. Compare them side by side once and the pair stops costing you.

• 棍gùnstick; rod; truncheon; scoundrel; villain
• 酿niàngto ferment; to brew; to make honey (of bees)
• 踉liángused in 跳踉
• 鹈tíused in 鹈鹕
• 榷quèfootbridge; toll, levy; monopoly
• 裱biǎoto hang (paper); to mount (painting)

Sounds the same

Read liáng, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 凉cool; cold
• 良good; very; very much
• 梁roof beam; beam (structure); bridge
• 量to measure
• 粱sorghum
• 椋used in 椋鸟
• 踉used in 跳踉
• 俍(literary) to be good at; to be expert in; (literary) skilled craftsman
• 辌see 辒辌