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Stroke order

Han character

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

1. hulled or husked uncooked rice
2. metre

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

See also

• (unit of length): 丈 , 尺 , 寸 , 分

Cantonese

Hanzi

米 (Yale mai5)

Noun

米 (traditional and simplified)

1. metre

See also

• (unit of length): 丈 , 尺 , 寸 , 分

Japanese

Noun

米 (hiragana こめ, romaji kome)

1. rice

Noun

米 (hiragana よね, romaji yone)

1. rice

Noun

米 (hiragana めめ, romaji meme)

1. rice

Kanji

米 (grade 2 kanji)

Readings

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

Usage notes

べい (bei) can be used to mean the Americas, and 米国 (べいこく, beikoku) means United States.

Korean

Hanja

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

Mandarin

Pronunciation

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Hanzi

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

Compounds

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

Middle Chinese

Han character

米 (měi)

Vietnamese

Han character

米 (mễ, mè)