糜
2 readings · tap one to hear it
rice gruel; rotten; to waste (money)
- Strokes
- 17
- Radical
- 米 +11
- Structure
- Upper-left enclosure 左上包
- Traditional
- 糜
- Common rank
- #2,944
- Unicode
- U+7CDC
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Formation & memory
Break the character into parts you already know.
Words with 糜
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 何不食肉糜 | (lit.) "Why don't they eat meat porridge?" (said by Emperor Hui of Jin 晉惠帝|晋惠帝[Jin4 Hui4 d… | |
| 糜烂性毒剂 | vesicant | |
| 鱼糜 | surimi | |
| 肉糜 | minced meat | |
| 糜费 | variant of 靡費|靡费[mi2 fei4] | |
| 乳糜泻 | celiac disease | |
| 糜烂 | dissipated; rotten; decaying | |
| 蒜糜 | (dialect) garlic paste | |
| 奢糜 | variant of 奢靡[she1 mi2] | |
| 侈糜 | variant of 侈靡[chi3 mi2] |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 麻 — compare how they read.
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 麻 sound part | hemp, flax, sesame; numb | |
| 摩 | to scour, to rub, to grind; friction | |
| 磨 | millstone; to grind, to polish, to rub, to wear out | |
| 魔 | demon, evil spirit; magic, spell | |
| 靡 | to scatter, to disperse; to divide | |
| 嘛 | final exclamatory particle | |
| 麽 | interrogative particle | |
| 縻 | harness, halter; to tie up |