糙 cāo coarse
coarse; harsh; rough; coarse rice
How to remember 糙: 米 rice + 造 to build = coarse. The cook serves brown rice to the men who came to build the barn, and they laugh that it feels coarse.
Component breakdown
糙 = 米 rice + 造 to build
- 米 rice
- 造 to build
The cook serves brown rice to the men who came to build the barn, and they laugh that it feels coarse.
How it is used
- Coarse/rough/crude - 粗糙 (cūcāo): rough to the touch (皮肤粗糙 rough skin), and figuratively crude/shoddy in workmanship (做工粗糙 poorly made).
- 糙米 (cāomǐ) is brown/unpolished rice. Colloquially 糙 also describes a rough-and-ready manner (糙汉子 a rugged man).