HSK 3 · Common Objects

米 mǐ “rice” in Chinese

Same in Traditional

What 米 means

  1. rice
  2. metre
  3. uncooked rice
  4. metre (unit of length)

How to say 米

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale米mǐ3rd tone, dipping

米 in a sentence

  1. 你国家的人吃米吗？

    Nǐ guójiā de rén chī mǐ ma?

    Do the people of your country eat rice?

    Sentence #10966794 from Tatoeba

  2. 一粒米都不要浪费！

    Yí lì mǐ dōu búyào làngfèi!

    Waste not a single grain of rice!

    Sentence #829721 from Tatoeba

How 米 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 米 (mǐ) with each of its parts in a different colour
米mǐuncooked rice
  • 丷eight form of 八 · bā
  • 木tree · mù

Memory aidGrains of rice scattered around a stalk.

How to write 米

米 6 strokes

Watch the order, then press Try writing it and draw each stroke in the grid. Each stroke is checked as you go.

米 (mǐ) stroke order chart: each stroke of the character in the order you write it
Stroke order chart for 米 (mǐ). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 米

Words with 米

米饭mǐfàn · cooked rice玉米yùmǐ · corn厘米límǐ · centimetre毫米háomǐ · millimetre

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FAQs

米 (mǐ) means “rice” or “metre”. It is an HSK 3 word.
Say it mǐ: mǐ with a 3rd tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
Yes. 米 is written the same way in Simplified and Traditional characters.
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type mi with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 米 from the suggestions. Typing mi into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
米 is an HSK 3 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.