Memory phrase for the character: 米

米

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Meaning (unboiled) rice, meter (classifier)

Pronunciation

mǐ

Explanation

Mnemonic
 
Originally an image of the spike of grain, but later mixed with the rice plant 禾 to the present shape.

Radicals

米 rice
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 Vocabulary

平方米 píng fāng mǐ  square meter
碾米机 niǎn mǐ jī  rice milling machine
俾格米 bǐ gé mǐ  Pygmy
生米煮成熟饭 shēng mǐ zhǔ chéng shú fàn  the rice is cooked; what's done is done; it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
纳米比亚 Nà mǐ bǐ yà  Namibia
微米 wēi mǐ  micron (one thousandth of a millimeter or 10^-6 meter)
玉米 yù mǐ  corn; maize
厘米 lí mǐ  centimeter (cm)
毫米 háo mǐ  millimeter
苞米 bāo mǐ  corn; maize (esp. northeast Mandarin)
苞米 bāo mǐ  

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