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Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

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

  1. Kangxi radical #119, (rice).

Derived characters

See also

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

Chinese

simp. and trad.

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*miː, *miːs
*miː
*miːʔ
*miːʔ
*miːʔ
*miːʔ
*me
*me
*mral
*meʔ
*meʔ
*mril
*mril
*mril

Pronunciation



  • Dialectal data
Variety Location
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/
/mi⁴²/
Shantou (Min Nan) /bi⁵³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /vi²¹³/

Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1
Initial () (4)
Final () (39)
Tone (調) Rising (X)
Openness (開合) Open
Division () IV
Fanqie
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
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
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
Reading # 1/1
No. 9003
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*miːʔ/

Definitions

  1. hulled or husked uncooked rice
  2. husked seed
  3. grain-like things
  4. (loanword, from English meter) meter
    •    Wǒ yǒu yī jiǔ gāo.   I'm 1.9 meters tall.

Compounds


Japanese

Kanji

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

References

  • 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

(hiragana こめ, romaji kome)

  1. rice

(hiragana よね, romaji yone)

  1. eighty-eight years old (colloquial)
  2. rice (archaic)

(katakana メートル, romaji mētoru)

  1. metre, meter

Usage notes

Also can be read めめ (meme)

Synonyms

八十八 (はちじゅうはちさい, hachijūhachi-sai).

Compounds

Proper noun

(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
    米大統領選 (べいだいとうりょうせん)
    bei-daitōryō-sen
    US presidential election

Proper noun

(hiragana よね, romaji Yone)

  1. A surname.

Korean

Hanja

(mi) (hangeul , McCune-Reischauer mi, Yale mi)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(mễ, )

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