The Chinese Radical: 米


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Meaning
rice    米

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
to come, to arrive, ever since, next
lái
Top: one , bottom: rice (with a long vertical stroke)
Because of one grain of rice I shall come?
JLPT HSK 1
(unboiled) rice, meter (classifier)


Originally an image of the spike of grain, but later mixed with the rice plant to the present shape.
JLPT HSK 3
feed, material, to expect, to anticipate
liào
Left: rice , right: measure of volume (1 Dou = 10 l; stylised ladle with sth. in it)
Rice of a dou is measured: as feed.
JLPT HSK 3
cakes, pastry
gāo
Left: rice , right: lamb (sheep [here: rising heat in an oven with three levels ] with fire )
It's made of rice in a 3-level-oven over the fire: The cake.
JLPT HSK 4
confused, bewilder, crazy about, enthusiast

Left: movement 辶, right: rice (Here: From a central point it radiates into eight directions.)
Who moves in eight directions is confused and bewildered.
JLPT HSK 4
coarse, rough, unfinished, rude, vulgar

Left: rice , right: moreover (A pile of stones [= a stone cairn] where moreover stones are added.)
The (grains of) rice that you can pile up, are moreover: too coarse.
JLPT HSK 4
severance, to decide, break, judgement, definitely, to cut off
duàn
From left: corner , rice , axe
If the rice is in a corner , you can use the axe to decide whether to cut it.
JLPT HSK 4
vitality, energy, essence, sperm, elite
jīng
Left: rice , right: young, blue (Growing plants appear in the moonshine blue and young.)
Rice that has been grown under the moon is full of vitality.
JLPT HSK 4
to go on with, to continue, to succeed, to inherit, then

Left: thread 纟/, right: angle , rice
As long as a thread, we will manage with the rice in the corner to go on with.
JLPT HSK 4
sugar, sweets, candy
táng
广
Left: rice , right: Tang dynasty 唐 (In the building 广 the hand with pestle and mortar during Tang)
You use rice in a building to squeeze it with a pestle in a hand and a mortar to get: sugar.
JLPT HSK 5
provisions, food, tax paid in grain
liáng
Left: rice , right: good
The rice is well suited as provisions.
JLPT HSK 5
paste, cream, glue, muddled, scorched
hú, hù, hū
Left: rice , right: beard, non-Han-person (Like old flesh / are the beards of the non-Han people.)
You use rice and old bodies (= bone glue) for the paste that is a glue.
JLPT HSK 5
category, type, kind, class, similar
lèi
Top: rice , bottom: big (A person with widely spread arms appears: big.)
(For culturing or breeding:) For big rice they made categories and types.
JLPT HSK 5
pickled in wine, rotten, messy, ruined
zāo
Left: rice , right: class/group (The seedlings from the field are tied-up and put into baskets for: classification.)
Rice of the same class is pickled in wine.
JLPT HSK 5
sprout, seedling, vaccine
miáo
Top: plant , below: field
(The tiny sprouts look like grass:) The 'grass' on the field are actually the seedlings.
JLPT HSK 5
sticky, glutinous, to adhere
nián, zhān
Left: rice , right: divine (crack in the shell of a turtle used for divination)
Rice is good for divination if it's sticky.
JLPT HSK 5
coarse (in texture), rough
cāo
Left: rice , right: to manufacture, build, construct 造 (The movement announces that sth. shall be built.)
(No joke: Rice was used in the mortar of the Chinese Wall) Rice is suitable for construction, when it is coarse.
JLPT HSK 6
powder, flour, whitewash
fěn
Left: rice , right: to divide (... with the sword in 8 pieces)
Rice is divided until it is powder/flour.
JLPT HSK 6
riddle, enigma, puzzle

Left: word /, right: to astray, bewilder 迷 (Who moves 辶 [from a center] into eight directions is astrayed and perplex.)
The words are astraying in a riddle.
JLPT HSK 6
grain, granule, [small round things]

Left: rice , right: to stand
Where the rice stands, there is grain.
JLPT HSK 6
to squint, blind (as with dust)
mī, mǐ
Left: eye , right: rice
The eyes are small as a grain of rice, when squinting.
JLPT HSK 6
congee, gruel, porridge
zhōu
Outside: each bows , inside: rice
Use "bowed" (= mashed) rice, to make congee (= rice porridge)
JLPT HSK 6
to rear, to bring up, to raise

Left: leather (Horned 廿 animals have a skin of leather.), right: 匊 (enwrap , rice )
The horned animal needs protection (= wrapping) and food (=rice) during rearing.
JLPT HSK 6
pure, unmixed, essence
cuì
Left: rice , right: soldier, suddenly (Between two rotary discs , are soldiers [who die] suddenly.)
Rice between two rotary discs is purified.
JLPT no HSK
abyss, deep, profound, to surge up
yuān
Left: water , right: two separators || rice
Like water, the rice container (with open bottom) can be deep (like an abyss).
JLPT no HSK
female unicorn (mythical creature)
lín
鹿
Left: deer 鹿, right: 粦 (rice and opposed [=two twisted feet, like at: to dance 舞)
The deer, that only eats rice and has upturned feet, is the unicorn.
JLPT no HSK
scales (of fish)
lín
Left: Fisch 鱼/ (... with mouth , body and tail fin ), right: 粦 (rice , oppose [= two twisted feet, like at: to dance 舞])
At the fish is sth. 'rice-shaped' up until the feet (= fins/flipper) which are the scales.
JLPT no HSK
millet, grain, goose pimples

西
Top: west 覀/西 (sun moves below the horizon at sunset in the west.), bottom: rice
The 'western' rice is: millet.
JLPT no HSK
excrement, manure, dung
fèn
Top: rice , bottom: together (Put the plants on the table together.)
The rice becomes together (with all you eat): excrement.
JLPT no HSK
phosphorus (chemistry), water in rocks
lín
Left: stone , right: 粦 (rice , opposed [two twisted feed like at: to dance 舞])
(Think of phosphorus fertilizer) The 'stone' for the rice, that comes into furrows drawn by feet is the: Phosphorus.
JLPT no HSK
chrysanthemum

From top: plant , 匊 (wrap , rice )
The plant that is first wrapped and then blossoms like the hanzi for rice is: the chrysanthemum.
JLPT no HSK
Cantonese, Guangdong 广东
yuè
Top: container with a handle and rice , bottom: winding seaweed
Here's the island Hong Kong, which became rich from rice , while the rest had only water plants : the district of Canton.
JLPT no HSK
sound to call cat

Left: mouth , right: rice
(The cats hunt in the rice because there are the mice:) The sound (= what comes out of the mouth) of the rice (= the barn) is a: miaow!
JLPT no HSK
excrements, feces, ear wax, nasal mucus
shǐ
Left: buttocks , right: rice
Coming out of the buttocks after (the consumption of) rice, are the: excrements.
JLPT no HSK
seeds

Left: rice , right: child
The rice has 'children', namely: the seeds.
JLPT no HSK
sorghum
liáng
Top: water and 刅 (double edged sword ), bottom: rice
Use water and a double-edged sword and you get this 'rice': sorghum.
JLPT no HSK
dissolved, rice-gruel, wasted

Top: hemp (The building 广 in the forest is for the hemp), bottom: rice
(Fraud at the drug dealer?) As the (ordered) hemp was only rice, he was murdered.

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