(mǐ) - rice (uncooked); metre in Mandarin
mǐTraditional: 米
Translation
rice (uncooked); metre
Word origin
米 (mǐ) 'uncooked rice' is a pictograph showing grains of rice separated by the cross-strokes of the ears or husks on the threshing floor.
- Origin
- pictograph
- Root
- scattered grains of rice
Stroke order
米
Examples
。
I eat rice every day.
。
This road is ten metres long.
百。
He ran a hundred metres.
。
He eats rice every day.
。
Please walk fifty metres.
米 (mǐ) means uncooked rice or the unit metre.
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Multi-character compounds in the corpus that contain 米.
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