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稗: barnyard millet

barnyard millet
14 strokesNames & literary · More literary kanji (準1級 range)in 3 words here

Readings

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ひえ

Read ひえ for the grain; the on-reading はい appears in literary 稗史 and 稗官, where it means petty or minor.

Key words

稗ひえbarnyard millet
稗史はいしunofficial history; fiction
稗官はいかんminor official who gathered street tales

Example sentences

In mountain villages where rice could not be grown, they lived mainly on millet and foxtail millet.

Stories of ordinary people that do not appear in the official histories are preserved in unofficial histories.

A haikan was originally a minor official who gathered popular gossip and reported it to the king.

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