VocabularyHSK 3 · core

米

mǐ

meter, rice

Part of speech · noun

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米rice
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Examples

  1. 一米八。
    1.8 meters.
  2. 吃米饭。
    Eat rice.

Collocations

一米米饭大米

Mnemonic

米 mǐ "rice / meter" — pictograph of 4 rice grains. Two senses: native "rice" (米饭, 大米) and borrowed metric unit (一米 = 1 m). Cognate of Japanese 米 kome / bei.

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