稗
稗: barnyard millet
barnyard millet
14 strokesNames & literary · More literary kanji (準1級 range)in 3 words here
Readings
On
ハイ・ヒ
Kun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
米のとれない山の村では、稗や粟を主食にしていた。
In mountain villages where rice could not be grown, they lived mainly on millet and foxtail millet.
正式な歴史書に出てこない庶民の話は、稗史に残されている。
Stories of ordinary people that do not appear in the official histories are preserved in unofficial histories.
稗官とは、もともと民間の噂話を集めて王に報告する小役人のことだ。
A haikan was originally a minor official who gathered popular gossip and reported it to the king.