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米

米

See also: 釆

Translingual

Stroke order

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

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.
 米

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 米
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
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

Pronunciation

  • 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

米

  1. hulled or husked uncooked rice
  2. husked seed
  3. grain-like things
  4. (loanword, from English meter) meter
    • 我有一米九高。  ―  Wǒ yǒu yī mǐ jiǔ gāo.  ―  I'm 1.9 meters tall.

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

米

(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

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

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

Proper noun

米 ‎(hiragana よね, romaji Yone)

  1. A surname​.

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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