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(mǐ) - rice (uncooked); metre in Mandarin

Traditional: 米

Line drawing of 米
Coloured illustration of 米
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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

Stroke order for 米

Examples

I eat rice every day.

This road is ten metres long.

bǎi

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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This word is part of lesson 20.