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)

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

米 (Jyutping mai5, Yale mai5)

Noun

米 (traditional and simplified, traditional and simplified 米)

1. metre

See also

• (unit of length): 丈 , 尺 , 寸 , 分

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Hakka

Hanzi

米 (POJ mí, Guangdong mi³, Hagfa Pinyim mi3)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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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)

Prefix

米 (hiragana べい, romaji bei-)

1. American

Usage notes

Used when referring to America or the Americas. As in 米国 (べいこく, beikoku), United States, or 北米 (ほくべい, hokubei), North America.

Proper noun

米 (hiragana よね, romaji Yone)

1. A surname​.

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

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

Noun

米 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin mǐ)

1. hulled or husked uncooked rice
2. meter

   我有一米九高。 wǒ yǒu yī mǐ jiǔ gāo.

   I'm 1.9 meters tall.

Compounds

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

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Middle Chinese

Han character

米 (měi)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

米 (POJ bí (bi²))

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Vietnamese

Han character

米 (mễ, mè)