Obsolete term for millet or grain. In modern Japanese, 粟 is normally read あわ. This reading ぞく is found only in old texts.
See also: 粟 (あわ)
In old documents, 粟 is sometimes read as ぞく.
stipend in rice
Archaic term for a stipend paid in rice, used in historical contexts such as samurai stipends.
10,000th of a shaku
A very small unit of length, one ten-thousandth of a 尺 (shaku). This is a technical historical measurement term.
See also: 尺 (しゃく)
In the Edo period, samurai were given rice as a stipend called ぞく.
One ten-thousandth of a shaku was called ぞく.
miliary fever; sweating sickness
miliary tuberculosis
Obsolete kanji reading for millet; the common reading is あわ. This form is mainly encountered in historical or classical contexts.
The reading ぞく is an obsolete Sino-Japanese reading of 粟. The character itself originally referred to millet. The historical stipend and measurement senses are derived from the association with grain.