糧 means “provisions, food”

りょう · ryou

Also: bread

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

かて

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

リョウ, ロウ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 18 strokes

The story

Rice (米) measured out (量): picture rations weighed for a long march. 食糧 is a nation's food supply, 兵糧 an army's provisions, and 糧 alone is sustenance of any kind: 心の糧 is food for the soul, 生活の糧 a living.

Used in 食糧 (shokuryou, food supply), 兵糧 (hyourou, army provisions), and 糧 (kate, sustenance)

More from Plenty & Want

• 剰 excess
• 乏 scarce
• 飢 starve
• 餓 starvation
• 窮 cornered
• 飽 tire of
• 倹 frugal
• 貪 greedy
• 裕 ample

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