How to write 米 (mǐ, “uncooked rice”)
米 (mǐ), an HSK 1 character, means “uncooked rice” and “meter”. Make Me a Hanzi uses it in 70 other characters, such as 匊 (“handful”), 咪 (“sound for calling a cat”) and 奥 (“obscure”). On its own it is an HSK 3 word; it also forms 米饭 (“(cooked) rice”), 大米 (“(husked) rice”) and 厘米 (“centimeter”). Japanese reads it bei, “rice”, as a JLPT N3 kanji.
- Pinyin
- mǐ
- Strokes
- 6
- HSK
- 1
- Radical
- 米 (“uncooked rice”)
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As an overlapping character it splits into 丷 (“"eight" component in Chinese characters”), strokes 1–2; 木 (“tree”), strokes 3–6, written the first part first.
- Dot ㇔top leftdown and right
- Left-falling stroke ㇒top rightdown and right → down and left
- Horizontal ㇐leftrightwards
- Vertical ㇑topdownwards
- Left-falling stroke ㇒centerdown and left
- Right-falling stroke ㇏centerdown and right → rightwards
Japanese and Chinese
Japanese and Chinese draw all 6 strokes in the same order and direction, by our stroke-by-stroke comparison.
米 inside other characters
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Pinyin and meaning
| Pinyin | Meanings | Traditional | In words |
|---|---|---|---|
| mǐ third tone | uncooked rice; meter (unit of length) | — | 米饭 大米 厘米 玉米 |
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- Words with it
- 141 in CC-CEDICT
Words with 米
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 米 | mǐ | uncooked rice; meter (unit of length) HSK 3 |
| 米饭 米飯 | mǐfàn | (cooked) rice HSK 1 |
| 大米 | dàmǐ | (husked) rice HSK 5 |
| 厘米 釐米 | límǐ | centimeter HSK 5 |
| 玉米 | yùmǐ | corn; maize HSK 5 |
| 平方米 | píngfāngmǐ | square meter HSK 6 |
| 毫米 | háomǐ | millimeter HSK 6 |
| 立方米 | lìfāngmǐ | cubic meter (m³) HSK 7-9 |
| 分米 | fēnmǐ | decimeter |
| 千米 | qiānmǐ | kilometer |
HSK words first (CC-CEDICT).
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