老米

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Chinese

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old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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老米

  1. old rice
  2. 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)

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