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老米

老米

Chinese

 
old (of people); aged; venerable (person); outdated; experienced; (a prefix used before the surname of a person or a numeral indicating the order of birth of the children in a family or to indicate affection or familiarity)
(measure word) meter; rice
simp. and trad.
(老米)

Noun

老米

  1. old rice
  2. (during the Ming and Qing Dynasty) 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