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黍

shǔ

Character

What 黍 means

1. broomcorn millet
2. glutinous millet

Words starting with 黍

• 黍鹀shǔ wú(bird species of China) corn bunting (Emberiza calandra)

Words containing 黍

• 玉蜀黍yù shǔ shǔcorn
• 怪蜀黍guài shǔ shǔsee 怪叔叔

Characters built on 禾

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

• 租zūto hire; to rent; to charter
• 稣sūarchaic variant of 苏; to revive
• 穆mùsolemn; reverent; calm
• 酥sūflaky pastry; crunchy; limp
• 秃tūbald (lacking hair or feathers); barren; bare; denuded; blunt (lacking a point)
• 秫shúglutinous sorghum
• 稃fūhusk; outside shell of grain

Characters that look like 黍

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

• 奥àoobscure; mysterious
• 廉liánincorruptible; honest; inexpensive
• 蓬péngfleabane (family Asteraceae); disheveled; classifier for luxuriant plants, smoke, ashes…
• 眷juàn(bound form) one's family, esp. wife and children; (literary) to regard with love and…
• 豢huànto rear; to raise (animals)
• 翕xīto open and close (the mouth etc); friendly; compliant

Sounds the same

Read shǔ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 暑heat; hot weather; summer heat
• 属category; genus (taxonomy); family members
• 鼠(bound form) rat; mouse
• 署office; bureau; (Taiwan pr. shù) to sign
• 蜀short name for Sichuan 四川; one of the Three Kingdoms 三国
• 数to count; to count as; to regard as; to enumerate; to list
• 薯potato; yam
• 曙(bound form) daybreak; dawn; Taiwan pr. shù
• 糬used in 麻糬
• 癙illness caused by worry
• 钃metal
• 鼡variant of 鼠