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Kanji Detail for 米 - "rice, meter, America"

米

  • Meaning

    米 means "rice, meter, America."

    1. Rice - The grain of rice plants; dehusked grain.

    2. Meter - A unit of length.

    3. America - Abbreviation for America or the American continent.

  • Words using 米

    • 日米 にちべい Listen Japan and the United States; Japanese-American
    • 米国 べいこく Listen (United States of) America; USA; US
    • 全米 ぜんべい Listen all-America; pan-American; all of America
    • 対米 たいべい Listen relating to the USA; toward America; with America
    • 訪米 ほうべい Listen visit to the United States
    • 南米 なんべい Listen South America
    • 中南米 ちゅうなんべい Listen Central and South America
    • 米価 べいか Listen rice price

  • Four-character idioms with 米

    • 脱米入亜 だつべいにゅうあ Listen away from America, toward Asia (as a political policy, etc.)

  • Origin of 米

    A pictograph of rice grains scattered around the cross of a stalk — six grains on the ear. So central that it came to mean America (米国) purely by sound.

    How to remember it: Six grains on a crossed stalk — rice, drawn kernel by kernel.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: rice, meter, America
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read こめ, こめさき, たから, ふくうち)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 米

    Given names 米(こめ)Listen 米(たから)Listen 米(まい)Listen 米(よね)Listen

    Surnames 米(こめさき)Listen 米(ふくうち)Listen 米(ふくじ)Listen 米(ふくとく)Listen 米(めい)Listen 米(よねはま)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    rice; USA; metre

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    hulled or husked uncooked rice

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Mi

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    rice, millet, grain

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    米突. The unit of the French measurement system. Also abbreviated as 米. This is the meter.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    bei(ベイ) ベイ

    mai(マイ) マイ

    meetoru(メエトル) メエトル

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    kome(こめ) こめ

    yone(よね) よね

  • Strokes

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    6 strokes

  • Radical

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    米 (kome・komehen)

  • Related Keywords

    rice meter America grain cereal crop paddy agriculture food cooking harvest measurement length

Sentences including 米

  • I am american.

  • He went to america to study medicine.

  • Ten years have passed since he went to america.

  • They sent him to north america.

  • The japanese live on rice.

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