粥 (zhōu)
porridge/congee
How 粥 is written
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 弜 — N/A
- Traditional
- 粥
- Simplified
- 粥 (unchanged)
Components
- 弜 N/A
- 米 rice
粥 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- yù
- see 葷粥|荤粥[Xun1 yu4]
- zhōu
- congee; gruel; porridge; CL:碗[wan3]
Common words using 粥
- 米粥 mǐzhōu
- congee
- 燕麥粥 yànmàizhōu
- oatmeal; porridge
- 稀粥 xīzhōu
- water gruel; thin porridge
- 臘八粥 làbāzhōu
- Laba rice porridge
粥 in a sentence
我感冒了，只想吃點清淡的粥。
Wǒ gǎnmào le, zhǐ xiǎng chī diǎn qīngdàn de zhōu.
“I have a cold and only want to eat some light congee.”
How common is 粥?
粥 is the 3,015th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 99.2% of all running text.
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