米

See also: 釆

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Historical forms of the character 米
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. Kangxi radical #119, ⽶ ‎(“rice”).

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 (mi³)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄧˇ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): mai⁵
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): mí
• Min Dong (BUC): mī
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): bí

  (Teochew, Peng'im): bhi²

• Wu (Wiktionary): mi (T3)

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mǐ
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄧˇ
    • Wade-Giles: mih³
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: mii
    • IPA ^(key): /mi²¹⁴/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: mai⁵
    • Yale: máih
    • Cantonese Pinyin: mai⁵
    • IPA ^(key): /mɐi̯¹³/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: mí
    • Hakka Romanization System: mi`
    • Hagfa Pinyim: mi³
    • IPA: /mi³¹/
• Min Dong
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: mī
    • IPA ^(key): /mi³³/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: bí
    • Tâi-lô: bí
    • Phofsit Daibuun: bie
    • IPA (Taipei): /bi⁵³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /bi⁵³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: bhi²
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: bí
    • IPA ^(key): /bi⁵²/
• Wu
  • (Shanghainese)
    • Wiktionary: mi (T3)
    • IPA ^(key): /mi²³/

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• Dialectal data▼

Variety	Location	edit 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/

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• Middle Chinese: /mei^X/▼

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

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*(C.)mˤ[e]jʔ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*miːʔ/

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

米

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 (mǐfěn)
• 米酒 (mǐjiǔ)
• 米飯／米饭 (mǐfàn)

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Japanese

Kanji

米

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• Goon: まい (mai)
• Kan’on: べい (bei)
• 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)

米 ‎(katakana メートル, romaji mētoru)

1. metre, meter

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)
• 米粉 (べいふん) ‎(beifun), 米粉 (こめこ) ‎(komeko): rice flour

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, McCune-Reischauer mi, Yale mi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

米 (mễ, mè)

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