米
米 in English
- uncooked rice / meter (unit of length) / (slang) Chinese yuan
Measure word
- 粒 lì grain; granule; pellet; particle; classifier for small round objects (peas, bullets, peanuts, pills, grains etc); (Tw)... attested in use
Stroke order
Show the animation Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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“迈克尔”是一个男名，但是“米歇尔”是一个女名。
"Michael" is a man's name, but "Michelle" is a woman's name.
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一粒米都不要浪费!
Waste not a single grain of rice!
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一英里大约是1600米。
A mile is equal to about 1,600 meters.
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他们吃很多米饭。
They eat a lot of rice.
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他们想栽培新品种的米来增加粮食生产。
They want to increase food production by growing new kinds of rice.
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他常引用米爾頓。
He often quotes Milton.
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在你们国家吃米饭吗？
Do you eat rice in your country?