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粳 is a phono-semantic compound character that refers to non-glutinous, short-grain rice, widely cultivated and eaten across East Asia. Its structure combines the semantic radical 米 (grain, rice) on the left, which assigns it to the domain of grains and rice products, with the phonetic component 更 on the right. This phonetic element historically guided the pronunciation, which over time shifted to jīng in contemporary standard Mandarin. The character distinguishes firm, non-sticky cooking rice from glutinous varieties represented by characters like 糯 in agricultural and culinary writing.
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