米

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See also: 釆
米 U+7C73, 米
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7C73
← 籲
[U+7C72] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 籴 →
[U+7C74]

Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
米-order.gif

Han character[edit]

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Radical 119 米

米 (radical 119, 米+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 火木 (FD), four-corner 90904, composition ⿻丷木(GHJKV) or ⿻十⿱丷八(T) or ⿻丷⿻十八(T))

  1. Kangxi radical #119, ⽶.

Derived characters[edit]

References[edit]

  • 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

Chinese[edit]

simp. and trad.
 米

Glyph origin[edit]

Historical forms of the character 米
Shang Western Zhou Warring States Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Chu Slip and silk script Qin slip script Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
米-oracle.svg 米-bronze.svg 米-silk.svg 米-slip.svg 米-seal.svg 米-bigseal.svg
Characters in the same phonetic series (米) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
謎 *miː, *miːs
迷 *miː
米 *miːʔ
眯 *miːʔ
洣 *miːʔ
蔝 *miːʔ
麊 *me
冞 *me
糜 *mral
敉 *meʔ
侎 *meʔ
麋 *mril
蘪 *mril
攗 *mril

Etymology[edit]

“uncooked rice; husked seed; etc.”
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ma-j ~ mej (“rice; paddy”). Cognate with Garo mi, Atong (India) mai.
“metre”
Short for 米突 (mǐtū), from English metre.

Pronunciation[edit]

Note: mai5-1 - “metre”.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 米
Mandarin Beijing /mi²¹⁴/
Harbin /mi²¹³/
Tianjin /mi¹³/
Jinan /mi⁵⁵/
Qingdao /mi⁵⁵/
Zhengzhou /mi⁵³/
Xi'an /mi⁵³/
Xining /mji⁵³/
Yinchuan /mi⁵³/
Lanzhou /mi⁴⁴²/
Ürümqi /mi⁵¹/
Wuhan /mi⁴²/
Chengdu /mi⁵³/
Guiyang /mi⁴²/
Kunming /mi⁵³/
Nanjing /mi²¹²/
Hefei /mz̩²⁴/
Jin Taiyuan /mi⁵³/
Pingyao /mi⁵³/
Hohhot /mi⁵³/
Wu Shanghai /mi²³/
Suzhou /mi³¹/
Hangzhou /mi⁵³/
Wenzhou /mei³⁵/
Hui Shexian /mi³⁵/
Tunxi /me²⁴/
Xiang Changsha /mi⁴¹/
Xiangtan /mi⁴²/
Gan Nanchang /mi²¹³/
Hakka Meixian /mi³¹/
Taoyuan /mi³¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mɐi²³/
Nanning /mei²⁴/
Hong Kong /mɐi¹³/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /bi⁵³/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /mi³²/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /mi²¹/ 量
/mi⁴²/ 名
Shantou (Min Nan) /bi⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /vi²¹³/
Rime
Character 米
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 齊 (39)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) IV
Fanqie 莫禮切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang 		/meiX/
Pan
Wuyun 		/meiX/
Shao
Rongfen 		/mɛiX/
Edwin
Pulleyblank 		/mɛjX/
Li
Rong 		/meiX/
Wang
Li 		/mieiX/
Bernard
Karlgren 		/mieiX/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex 		mǐ
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 米
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin) 		mǐ
Middle
Chinese 		‹ mejX ›
Old
Chinese 		/*(C.)mˤ[e]jʔ/
English 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 米
Reading # 1/1
No. 9003
Phonetic
component 		米
Rime
group 		脂
Rime
subdivision 		2
Corresponding
MC rime 		米
Old
Chinese 		/*miːʔ/

Definitions[edit]

米

  1. hulled or husked uncooked rice
  2. husked seed
  3. grain-like things
  4. (chiefly Cantonese) Short for 米粉 (mǐfěn, “rice vermicelli”).
    星洲炒米  ―  Xīngzhōu chǎomǐ  ―  Singapore-style noodles
  5. metre
    我有一米九高。  ―  Wǒ yǒu yī mǐ jiǔ gāo.  ―  I'm 1.9 metres tall.

Synonyms[edit]

Dialectal synonyms of 大米 (“husked uncooked rice”) [map]
Variety Location Words
Classical Chinese 米
Formal (Written Standard Chinese) 稻米
Mandarin Beijing 白米、大米、米
Taiwan 米
Harbin 大米、米
Jinan 大米
Muping 大米
Luoyang 大米
Jiedian 大米
Xi'an 白米
Xining 大米、米
Xuzhou 大米、米
Yinchuan 稻米、白米
Lanzhou 大米
Ürümqi 米
Wuhan 米
Chengdu 米、大米、飯米
Guiyang 米
Liuzhou 米
Yangzhou 米
Nanjing 米
Hefei 米
Cantonese Guangzhou 米
Hong Kong 米
Dongguan 米
Hong Kong (Weitou) 米
Yangjiang 米
Danzhou 米
Kuala Lumpur 米
Gan Nanchang 米
Lichuan 米
Pingxiang 米
Hakka Meixian 米
Yudu 米
Miaoli (N. Sixian) 米
Liudui (S. Sixian) 米
Hsinchu (Hailu) 米
Dongshi (Dabu) 米
Zhuolan (Raoping) 米
Yunlin (Zhao'an) 米
Hong Kong 米
Senai 米
Huizhou Jixi 米
Shexian 米
Tunxi 米
Jin Taiyuan 大米
Xinzhou 大米
Min Bei Jian'ou 米
Dikou 米
Zhenqian 米
Shibei 早米
Min Dong Fuzhou 米
Min Nan Xiamen 米
Quanzhou 米
Zhangzhou 米
Chaozhou 米
Johor Bahru 米
Wenchang 米
Haikou 米
Leizhou 米
Pinghua Nanning 米
Wu Shanghai 米
Suzhou 米
Hangzhou 米
Wenzhou 米
Chongming 米
Danyang 米
Jinhua 米
Ningbo 米
Xiang Changsha 米
Shuangfeng 米
Loudi 米

Compounds[edit]

Derived terms from 米

See also[edit]

  • (unit of length): 丈 (zhàng), 尺 (chǐ), 寸 (cùn), 分 (fēn)

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

米

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. husked rice grains
  2. meter, metre (SI unit of length)
  3. Short for 亜米利加 (Amerika): America, American, Americas, Americo-
  4. Short for 亜米利加合衆国 (Amerika Gasshūkoku): the United States
  5. eighty-eight-year-old

Readings[edit]

Compounds[edit]
Compounds

Etymology 1[edit]

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Kanji in this term
米
こめ
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

⟨ko2me2⟩ → */kəməj/ → /kome/

From Old Japanese.

Many theories exist regarding the ultimate derivation:

  • From 籠め (​kome), the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 籠める (komeru, “do with one's heart”), from the way rice is farmed.
  • Possibly borrowed from Korean, or other Asian language. Compare Vietnamese cơm (“cooked rice”)

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

米 (hiragana こめ, rōmaji kome)

  1. rice (husked grains of the Asian rice plant, Oryza sativa), one of the five grains
    Hypernym: 五穀 (gokoku)
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Proverbs[edit]
Proverbs
Coordinate terms[edit]
See also[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

米 (hiragana こめ, rōmaji Kome)

  1. a female given name
  2. a surname

Etymology 2[edit]

Kanji in this term
米
よね
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

⟨yo2ne⟩ → */jəne/ → /jone/

First attested in the Wamyō Ruijushō (938 CE).

Possibly a shift from Old Japanese 稲 (ine, “rice plant”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

The colloquial sense is derived from the components of the 米 kanji: 八 (hachi, “eight”) + 十 (jū, “ten”) + 八 (hachi, “eight”).

Noun[edit]

米 (hiragana よね, rōmaji yone)

  1. the Asian rice plant, Oryza sativa
    Synonym: 稲 (ine)
  2. rice (husked grains of the Asian rice plant, Oryza sativa)
  3. (colloquial) an eighty-eight-year-old
    Synonym: 米寿 (beiju)
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms

Proper noun[edit]

米 (hiragana よね, rōmaji Yone)

  1. a female given name
  2. a surname

Etymology 3[edit]

Kanji in this term
米
めめ
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

First attested around the Edo period.

Probably a shortened reduplication of kome (see above). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Noun[edit]

米 (hiragana めめ, rōmaji meme)

  1. (colloquial) rice (husked grains of the rice plant)

Etymology 4[edit]

Kanji in this term
米
めーとる
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Borrowing from French mètre.[1]

The use of this kanji is attested in the Meiji period and is an example of ateji (当て字), shortened from Mandarin 米突 (mǐtū), see Chinese section above.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

米 (katakana メートル, rōmaji mētoru)

  1. Rare spelling of メートル (mētoru): meter, metre (SI unit of length)
  2. Rare spelling of メーター (mētā): a device or implement used for measurement
Derived terms[edit]
Derived terms
Coordinate terms[edit]
See also[edit]
See also

Etymology 5[edit]

Kanji in this term
米
べい
Grade: 2
kun’yomi

Short for アメリカ.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

米 (hiragana べい, rōmaji bei)

  1. short for "America".

References[edit]

  • 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.
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ^ 1974, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Second Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō
  3. ^ Hirayama, Tetsuo (1960) 全国アクセント辞典 (Nationwide Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: 東京堂,.

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

米 • (mi) (hangeul 미, McCune–Reischauer mi, Yale mi)

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Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

米 (mè, mễ)

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