米

See also: 釆

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order

Etymology

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

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

1. hulled or husked uncooked rice
2. meter

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/米
• 迷 匊 屎

See also

• (unit of length): 丈 , 尺 , 寸 , 分
• 釆 歯

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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Chinese

		-
simp. and trad.		米

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mǐ, zá (mi³, za²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧˇ, ㄗㄚˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mai⁵
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): mí
• Min Nan (POJ): bí

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˇ
    • Wade-Giles: mih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mii
    • IPA ^(key): /mi²¹⁴/

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  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: zá
    • Zhuyin: ㄗㄚˊ
    • Wade-Giles: tsa²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tzar
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sa̠³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mai⁵
    • Yale: máih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mai⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /mɐi̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mí
    • IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /mi³¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bí
    • Tâi-lô: bí
    • IPA (Taipei): /bi⁴¹/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bi⁵³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (米, reconstructed)
Character (米), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 齊 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Rising (X)			Fanqie: 莫禮切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/meiX/	/mieiX/	/meiX/	/meiX/	/mɛjX/	/mieiX/	/mɛiX/

Old Chinese pronunciation (米, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
米								mǐ								‹ mejX ›								/*(C.)mˤ[e]jʔ/								millet or rice grains, dehusked and polished
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
米					9003					米					脂					2					米					/*miːʔ/

Noun

米

1. hulled or husked uncooked rice
2. meter

   • 我有一米九高。 [MSC, trad. and simp.]

     Wǒ yǒu yī mǐ jiǔ gāo. [Pinyin]

     I'm 1.9 meters tall.

Compounds

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

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Japanese

Kanji

米

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

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

References

JIS: 4A46 Kuten: 4238 Shift JIS: 95C4 EUC-JP: CAC6 Frequency: 61 Nelson: 3461

New Nelson: 4380 Halpern: 3529 Halpern Learners: 2198 Heisig: 919 Tuttle Kanji Dictionary: 6b0.1

1. Source: EDICT and KANJIDIC files licensed by the Electronic Dictionaries Research Group.

Noun

米 (hiragana こめ, romaji kome)

1. rice

米 (hiragana よね, romaji yone)

1. eighty-eight years old (colloquial)
2. rice (archaic)

Usage notes

Also can be read めめ (meme)

Synonyms

八十八歳 (はちじゅうはちさい, hachijūhachi-sai).

Compounds

• 米塩 (べいえん, beien)
• 米寿 (べいじゅ, beiju)
• 米粟 (べいぞく, beizoku)
• 米飯 (べいはん, beihan)

Proper noun

米 (hiragana べい, romaji Bei)

1. America, American, Americo-

   米国 (べいこく)

   Beikoku

   US, USA, United States

   米露関係 (べいろかんけい)

   Bei-Ro kankei

   US-Russia relations

   北米 (ほくべい)

   Hokubei

   North America

   南米 (なんべい)

   Nanbei

   South America

Proper noun

米 (hiragana よね, romaji Yone)

1. A surname​.

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Vietnamese

Han character

米 (mễ, mè)

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