粢

zī
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 grain offered in sacrifice; millet
  2. 2 rice cake

Examples

HSK 6
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 次 is the phonetic, shared with 资 and 姿.
register
Classical and ritual only - confined to old texts on sacrifice, never modern speech.

Components

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

Stroke Order

粢 zī