米
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uncooked rice; meter (unit of length); (slang) Chinese yuan
- HSK 3.0
- Level 1
- Old HSK
- Level 1
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 米 itself
- Structure
- Overlaid 叠加
- Traditional
- 米
- Common rank
- #247
- Unicode
- U+7C73
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
How to remember it
rice · Heisig RSH #778
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 米
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 米饭 | (cooked) rice | |
| 米尔斯 | Mills (name) | |
| 花生米 | shelled peanuts | |
| 多米尼克国 | Commonwealth of Dominica | |
| 克里米亚 | Crimea | |
| 阿拉米语 | Aramaic (language) | |
| 米东区 | Midong, a district of Ürümqi City 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市[Wu1 lu3 mu4 qi2 Shi4], Xinjiang | |
| 大米 | (husked) rice | |
| 米国 | United States; name of a country that formerly existed near Samarkand | |
| 马克西米连 | Maximilian or Maximilien (name) | |
| 米白色 | off-white; creamy white | |
| 生米 | coarse rice; uncooked rice | |
| 米林市 | Mainling, a county-level city in Nyingchi City 林芝市[Lin2 zhi1 Shi4], Tibet | |
| 多米尼克 | Dominica (Commonwealth of Dominica) | |
| 小米 | Xiaomi, Chinese electronics company founded in 2010 | |
| 小米 | millet | |
| 海米 | dried shrimps | |
| 米拉 | Mira (red giant star, Omicron Ceti) | |
| 阿米巴病 | amebiasis; amebic dysentery | |
| 白米 | (polished) rice |
Sound family
These characters use 米 as their sound component — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 米 sound part | rice, millet, grain | |
| 迷 | to bewitch, to charm; a fan of; infatuated | |
| 继 | to continue, to carry on; to succeed, to inherit | |
| 咪 | a cat's meow; a meter | |
| 眯 | to squint, to narrow the eyes; blindness | |
| 麋 | elk; surname | |
| 洣 | a river in Hunan province | |
| 敉 | to pacify, to soothe; to stabilize | |
| 脒 | to open; to throw away |