How do you read the pinyin of beans: [ shū ]?

Beans is a Chinese character, written 尗 in seal script, meaning like beans growing. It was later written 菽, which became a morpheme.

Basic definition: a general term for beans: not recognizable as ~ wheat.

Detailed explanations:

〈名〉 A general term for beans 尗,豆也. Like the shape of beans and peas. According to, like wearing seeds and out of the shape, under its roots. A, the ground. Referring to the matter. Beans and grasses are also difficult to kill.

Anciently, it was known as "bean", and in the Han Dynasty it was known as "peas", and now it is known as "beans". Beans, the general name of the beans. However, the soybean said beans, bean seedlings said Huo, small beans are said to agree." --Spring and Autumn Annals - Kaoyi Post" There are beans in the middle of the country, the small people to pick them. -- "Poetry - Xiaoya - Xiaowan" Customs filial piety family home for beans and water.

--Lu You, "Lake Bank, evening return" Another example: peas and water (refers to beans and water, refers to the thin diet, describes the life of the hard; refers to the elders of the elders of the support); peas and water, quinoa and patchouli (tea and rice. Quinoa: wild vegetables; bean leaves); beans and milk (i.e., tofu); beans and wheat (soybeans and wheat); beans and wheat is not divided (beans, wheat is not divided. It also refers to the indistinguishability of right and wrong, good and bad)

Group words:

beans and wheat, beans and millet, red beans and peas, jia beans and peas, shen beans and peas, cai peas and peas, yu peas and peas, pan peas and peas, ruminate beans and peas, beans and water, water peas and peas, ebbs and peas, peas and beans, peas and patchouli, half-peas and peas, patchouli peas and peas, ba-beans and peas, harvest peas and peas, hemp peas and peas, large peas and peas, peas and beans, peas and beans, peas and beans milk, peas and peas bramble, rice peas and beans, ron peas and peas, sorghum peas and peas, quinoa peas and peas