米
uncooked rice; meter (unit of length); (slang) Chinese yuan
6 strokes
Dict coverage rank #247 U+7C73
How 米 is formed
Pictograph (象形字)
Grains of rice
How to remember it
rice · Heisig RSH #778
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Characters built with 米 as their sound component
These characters all use 米 (mǐ) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 米 sound component | mǐ | rice, millet, grain |
| 迷 | mí | to bewitch, to charm; a fan of; infatuated |
| 继 | jì | to continue, to carry on; to succeed, to inherit |
| 咪 | mī | a cat's meow; a meter |
| 眯 | mī | to squint, to narrow the eyes; blindness |
| 麋 | mí | elk; surname |
| 洣 | mǐ | a river in Hunan province |
| 敉 | mǐ | to pacify, to soothe; to stabilize |
| 脒 | mǐ | to open; to throw away |
Words containing 米
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 米尔斯 | Mǐ ěr sī | Mills (name) |
| 花生米 | huā shēng mǐ | shelled peanuts |
| 多米尼克国 | Duō mǐ ní kè guó | Commonwealth of Dominica |
| 克里米亚 | Kè lǐ mǐ yà | Crimea |
| 阿拉米语 | Ā lā mǐ yǔ | Aramaic (language) |
| 米东区 | Mǐ dōng Qū | Midong, a district of Ürümqi City 烏魯木齊市|乌鲁木齐市[Wu1 lu3 mu4 qi2 Shi4], Xinjiang |
| 大米 | dà mǐ | (husked) rice |
| 米国 | Mǐ guó | United States; name of a country that formerly existed near Samarkand |
| 马克西米连 | Mǎ kè xī mǐ lián | Maximilian or Maximilien (name) |
| 米白色 | mǐ bái sè | off-white; creamy white |
| 生米 | shēng mǐ | coarse rice; uncooked rice |
| 米林市 | Mǐ lín Shì | Mainling, a county-level city in Nyingchi City 林芝市[Lin2 zhi1 Shi4], Tibet |
| 多米尼克 | Duō mǐ ní kè | Dominica (Commonwealth of Dominica) |
| 小米 | Xiǎo mǐ | Xiaomi, Chinese electronics company founded in 2010 |
| 小米 | xiǎo mǐ | millet |
| 海米 | hǎi mǐ | dried shrimps |
| 米拉 | Mǐ lā | Mira (red giant star, Omicron Ceti) |
| 阿米巴病 | ā mǐ bā bìng | amebiasis; amebic dysentery |
| 白米 | bái mǐ | (polished) rice |
| 平方米 | píng fāng mǐ | square meter |