米
Meanings
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- 1.uncooked rice
- 2.meter (unit of length)
- 3.(slang) Chinese yuan
- 1.surname Mi
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Wiktionary
- 1.hulled or husked uncooked rice (Classifier: 粒 m c mn; 顆／颗 m)
- 2.husked seed
- 3.grain-like things
- 4.money
- 5.ten thousand of a currency designation; ten grand (Classifier: 粒 w)
- 6.yuan (unit of CNY)
- 7.a surname
- 8.Used in transcription.
- 9.metre
- 10.only used in 米魯／米鲁
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) – rice kernels without husk. The character 粟, by contrast, refers to rice kernels with husk. According to Li Xiaoding (李孝定), the horizontal stroke is a bamboo sieve (籭 or 篩子). See also the bottom component of 暴 in its original form. Unrelated to 木, 禾, and 来. From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *mej (“grain”). Cognate with Garo mi (“rice”), Atong (India) mai (“rice”), Jingpho ma (“rice; paddy”), Rabha মাই (mai), Dimasa mai.
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Stroke order
Components
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Example sentences
你們要米飯嗎？
Do you want rice?
你們要米飯嗎？
Do you want some rice?
那個長30米。
That's thirty meters long.
米的产量减少了。
Production of rice has decreased.
他常引用米爾頓。
He often quotes Milton.
这个池塘有三米深。
The pond is 3 meters deep.
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Synonyms
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Derived terms
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