老米

Chinese[edit]

		old; aged; venerable old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)	rice; metre
trad. (老米)		老	米
simp. ^#(老米)		老	米

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lǎomǐ [Phonetic: láomǐ]
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄠˇ ㄇㄧˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lǎomǐ
  - Wade–Giles: lao³-mi³
  - Yale: lǎu-mǐ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: laomii
  - Palladius: лаоми (laomi)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɑʊ̯²¹⁴⁻³⁵ mi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: lou⁵ mai⁵
  - Yale: lóuh máih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: lou⁵ mai⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: lou⁵ mei⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lou̯¹³ mɐi̯¹³/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ló-mí
  - Hakka Romanization System: lo` mi`
  - Hagfa Pinyim: lo³ mi³
  - Sinological IPA: /lo³¹ mi³¹/
- (Meixian)
  - Guangdong: lau³ mi³
  - Sinological IPA: /lau³¹ mi³¹/
Southern Min
- (Teochew)
  - Peng'im: lao⁶ bhi²
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: lău bí
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lau³⁵⁻¹¹ bi⁵²/

老米

old rice
rice shipped from the southern province to Beijing or Tongzhou, which ferments and changes into a brown color after being kept too long in the barns (during the Ming and Qing Dynasty)