entries → 糙
TSUMUGU · C1 (est.) · 字
character · C1 (est.)
糙 =
ㄘㄠ · cāo
adj — coarse, rough, unpolished

字源 FORM — what the parts do

rice grains
zào — gives the soundto make, to build (造)
IFTzào → cāo — reading reshaped off the donor
Rice (米) still in its hull, not yet milled smooth — coarse, rough. 造 zào carries the sound, reshaped to cāo. From the unpolished grain, anything rough: 粗糙、糙米.

故事 STORY — a scene to remember it by

一把)還沒磨,殼還在上頭——糙。
A handful of rice (米) still in the hull, never milled — coarse.
字源記憶法
意 · Meanings
(本義)糙米— unpolished, coarse rice常用
粗糙— rough, coarse (of surface, work)常用
(本義) original meaning · → ⇒ each arrow = one more step of extension
關 · Related
zàothe bare sound donor — 造 alone means "to make"; 糙 swaps in rice (coarse)cáothe near-rhyme lookalike — 槽 takes wood 木 (a trough), 糙 takes rice (coarse)