粒

粒 (Kangxi radical 119, 米+5, 11 strokes, cangjie input 火木卜廿 (FDYT), four-corner 9091₈, composition ⿰米立)

• 𨅀, 𩻑

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 907, character 22
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26884
• Dae Jaweon: page 1333, character 7
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 5, page 3145, character 12
• Unihan data for U+7C92
• Unihan data for U+F9F9

Historical forms of the character 粒
Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)
Small seal script

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *rɯb) : semantic 米 (“rice”) + phonetic 立 (OC *rɯb).

粒

1. grain

   • 誰知盤中餐，粒粒皆辛苦？ [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     谁知盘中餐，粒粒皆辛苦？ [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Tang Dynasty, 李紳 [Li Shen], 憫農 [Pitying the Farmer]

     Shéi zhī pán zhōng cān, lì lì jiē xīnkǔ? [Pinyin]

     Who is aware that every grain of the meal in the plate is of toil?

2. small particle
3. Classifier for small, round objects: granule, grain, particle, piece ⇒ all nouns using this classifier

   一粒米  ―  yī lì mǐ  ―  a grain of rice

   一粒糖 [Cantonese]  ―  jat¹ lap¹ tong^4-2 [Jyutping]  ―  a piece of candy

4. (Hokkien, Eastern Min, Singapore and Malaysian Mandarin) Classifier for round, solid objects.

   一粒西瓜  ―  yī lì xīguā  ―  a watermelon

   • 故鄉彼粒山　永遠徛佇遐　毋知幾冬 [Taiwanese Hokkien, trad.]
     故乡彼粒山　永远徛伫遐　毋知几冬 [Taiwanese Hokkien, simp.]

     From: 2018, 許富凱 and 蔡佳麟 (lyricist 徐偉銘), 《疼憨人》

     kò͘-hiong hit lia̍p soaⁿ, éng-oán khiā tī hia, m̄ chai kúi tang [Pe̍h-ōe-jī]

     The mountain in my hometown stands there forever, for who knows how many years.

5. (Cantonese) Classifier for hours.
6. (Cantonese) Classifier for offspring.
7. (Cantonese) Classifier for pips (insignia).
8. (Cantonese, by extension) high-ranking police officer; police officer with pips
9. (Cantonese, slang) Classifier for money: ten thousand yuan, dollars, etc.

   Synonym: 個／个

• “粒”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• “Entry #7738”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan] (overall work in Mandarin and Hokkien), Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2023.

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

1. grains
2. drop
3. counter for tiny particles

• Go-on: りゅう (ryū, Jōyō)^{←りふ (rifu, historical)}
• Kan-on: りゅう (ryū, Jōyō)^{←りふ (rifu, historical)}
• Kun: つぶ (tsubu, 粒, Jōyō)

• 粒(りゅう)子(し) (ryūshi)

粒(つぶ) • (tsubu) 

1. grain, bead, drop

粒(つぶ) • (-tsubu) 

1. counter for small round objects including grains, seeds, pills, drops

From Middle Chinese 粒 (MC lip). Recorded as Middle Korean 립〮 (líp) (Yale: lip) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Wikisource 粒 (eumhun 알 립 (al rip), South Korea 알 입 (al ip))

1. Hanja form^? of 립/입 (“grain”).

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

粒: Hán Nôm readings: lạp, lép

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