黍

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millet

On-Yomi: ショ

Koohii stories:

1) [mcfate] 23-10-2007(28): Millet is a small grain whose importance was greater in prehistoric times. Nowadays, it has been supplanted in the West by wheat, and in the East ("under the bamboo umbrella"), by rice.

2) [kapalama] 19-9-2011(3): 黍 , 砂糖黍 , 唐黍 , 黍団子 ( 吉備団子 ), 玉蜀黍 , millet (#2605 黍) キビ … Parts: 禾, 人 , 氺… OR ノ, 漆 -氵 (cf: 漆 lacquer (#932 漆), 黎明 tenebrous (#2935 黎), 膝 knee (#2461 膝), 鳥黐 Unicode-0x9ed0 (#40656 黐)) … Note:Historical Radical 部首＃ 202 … Backwards Story:Lacquer漆 is actually made from millet: It's Millet with the husk removed (-ノ), then mixed with water (+氵).

3) [perrin4869] 3-10-2010(2): This kanji shows some people pouring grains of rice, wheat and millet all onto a single umbrella…

4) [paasan] 23-7-2010(1): Pranks painting the millet crops with a drop of lacquer (#932 漆). As the water vapors, it leaves the millet poisonous, and people drop everywhere from poisoning..

5) [Meconium] 21-2-2010(1): People who can't afford wheat and live in climates too dry for rice have to make do with millet. (Umbrella is really a person primitive.).

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