Learned a new one today, heard it as ngeh-khai or pulling something out with tongs
I hear the expression “lang” (啷) all the time. Usually my colleagues use it to describe a photo or a page design and it seems to mean something like empty or hollow, but I cannot put my finger on it.
Anyone has a good understanding of the meaning of this expression or where it comes from, or what the closest term in English would be?
And by anyone, I mean @hansioux or course. 
My first thought is this word
It has the meaning of sparse, scattered, thinly spread out.
There are several ways to refer to rice or the rice plant. There’s bí 米, usually just referring to rice grains. There’s also tiū-á (稻子), usually referring to the plant. However, there’s also the word tshik-á, which I think refers to unhusked form of the grains? I am not sure of both the meaning and the corresponding Hanji.
Then I saw 稷 (as in 社稷) in Old Chinese, and it’s /*[ts]ək/. That has to be the original character for tshik? 稷 was the original Old Chinese word for foxtail millet.
The MOE seems to suggest the use of the word 粟 for tshik, but 粟 in OC is /*[s]ok/.
It seems pretty clear the correct Hanji for tshik-á is 稷仔.