米

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Contents 1 Translingual 1.1 Han character 1.1.1 References 2 Cantonese 2.1 Hanzi 3 Japanese 3.1 Noun 3.2 Noun 3.3 Noun 3.4 Kanji 3.4.1 Readings 3.4.2 Usage notes 4 Korean 4.1 Hanja 5 Mandarin 5.1 Pronunciation 5.2 Hanzi 5.2.1 Compounds 6 Middle Chinese 6.1 Han character 7 Vietnamese 7.1 Han character

[edit] Translingual

[edit] Han character

米 (radical 119 米+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 火木 (FD), four-corner 9090₄)

1. hulled or husked uncooked rice
2. metre

[edit] References

• KangXi: page 906, character 31
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 26832
• Dae Jaweon: page 1331, character 28
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 5, page 3141, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7C73

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[edit] Cantonese

[edit] Hanzi

米 (Yale mai5)

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[edit] Japanese

[edit] Noun

米 (hiragana こめ, romaji kome)

1. rice

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米 (hiragana よね, romaji yone)

1. rice

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米 (hiragana めめ, romaji meme)

1. rice

[edit] Kanji

米 (grade 2 kanji)

[edit] Readings

• On: べい (bei), まい (mai), め (me)
• Kun: こめ (kome), よね (yone), メートル (mētoru)

[edit] Usage notes

べい (bei) can be used to mean the Americas, and 米国 (べいこく, beikoku) means United States.

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[edit] Korean

[edit] Hanja

米 (hangeul 미, revised mi, McCune-Reischauer mi, Yale mi)

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[edit] Mandarin

[edit] Pronunciation

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[edit] Hanzi

米 (pinyin mǐ (mi3), zá (za2), Wade-Giles mi³, tsa²)

[edit] Compounds

• 米粉
• 米酒
• 米飯 (traditional), 米饭 (simplified)

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[edit] Middle Chinese

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米 (měi)

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[edit] Vietnamese

[edit] Han character

米 (mễ, mè)