Usage of the character 稗
bài
稗
[粺]
- polished rice
- old variant of 稗 (bài)
bài
稗
[稗]
- barnyard millet (Echinochloa crus-galli)
- Panicum crus-galli
- (literary) insignificant
- trivial
bàiguān
稗官
[稗官]
- (old) petty official charged with reporting back to the ruler on what people in a locality are talking about
- novel in the vernacular
- fiction writer; novelist