米 mǐ

1. mǐ noun rice
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Food and Drink , Concept: Grains 粮食
   Notes: For example, 種種藥草。合和米麯甘蔗汁中。能變成酒。 'Take many kinds of medicinal herbs and mix them together with rice, yeast, and sugar cane juice and they will turn into wine.' (Collection of Meanings and Terms in Translation, Scroll 3, T 2131 翻譯名義集‧卷第三; Guoyu '米' n 1; Unihan '米')
2. mǐ measure word meter
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Quantity
   Notes: A measure of length (Guoyu '米' n 5; Sun 2006, loc. 1531)
3. mǐ proper noun Mi
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Names , Concept: Surname 姓氏
   Notes: (Guoyu '米' n 6)
4. mǐ noun Kangxi radical 119
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语 , Subdomain: Radicals
   Notes: Rice (ABC back cover; GHC p. 7; Guoyu '米' n 7)
5. mǐ noun a granule
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: Especially one with an outer husk removed; for example, 花生米 'peanut' (Guoyu '米' n 2)
6. mǐ noun food
   Domain: Modern Chinese 现代汉语
   Notes: In the sense of 食物 (Guoyu '米' n 3)

Contained in

• 筒子米糕 rice tube pudding, a single-serve column of glutinous rice topped with a sauce and garnished (Taiwanese dish, originally prepared by stuffing rice into bamboo tubes and steaming them)
• 米黄(米黃) beige
• 波西米亚(波西米亞) bohemian (i.e. artistic and unconventional) ; Bohemia
• 玉米糕 corn cake; polenta (corn mush)
• 泰米尔语(泰米爾語) Tamil
• 灌米汤(灌米湯) to flatter; to butter up
• 米欧(米歐) mu (Greek letter Μμ)
• 米麴菌 Aspergillus oryzae (type of mold)
• 五斗米道 Way of Five Pecks of Rice
• 陈米(陳米) old rice; rice kept for many years
• 米拉 Mira
• 高果糖玉米糖浆(高果糖玉米糖漿) high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)
• 精米 refined rice
• 捣米(搗米) to hull rice
• 碾米机(碾米機) rice milling machine
• 黍米 proso millet; broomcorn millet
• 毫微米 millimicron; one-millionth of a millimeter
• 鸡头米(雞頭米) Gorgon fruit; Semen euryales
• 国际米兰足球俱乐部(國際米蘭足球俱樂部) FC Internazionale Milano (football club)
• 炒米 to roast rice ; roasted rice; parched rice ; millet fried with butter
• 沙西米 sashimi
• 欧米茄表公司(歐米茄錶公司) Omega SA, Swiss luxury watchmaker
• 米哈伊尔·普罗霍罗夫(米哈伊爾·普羅霍羅夫) Mikhail Prokhorov
• 米粉 rice flour ; rice flour noodles
• 亚尔发和奥米加(亞爾發和奧米加) Alpha and Omega
• 阿米巴痢疾 amoebic dysentery; amebic dysentery
• 生米 coarse rice; uncooked rice
• 地塞米松 dexamethasone
• 舂米 to pound rice
• 小米椒 same as 朝天椒[chao2 tian1 jiao1]
• 西米 sago
• 卡西米尔效应(卡西米爾效應) Casimir effect (attraction between two parallel metal plates due to quantum mechanical vacuum effects)
• 阿米纳达布(阿米納達布) Amminadab (name)
• 不当家不知柴米贵(不當家不知柴米貴) a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is
• 厘米(釐米) centimeter
• 过桥米线(過橋米線) rice noodle soup
• 米果 rice cracker
• 阿米巴 amoeba
• 呒虾米输入法(嘸蝦米輸入法) Boshiamy (Hoklo: 無甚物 it's nothing) input method for Chinese
• 米虫(米蟲) rice weevil; (fig.) sponger; parasite
• 阿拉米语(阿拉米語) Aramaic

Also contained in

萨拉米斯 、 阿基米德 、 纳米技术 、 圣巴泰勒米 、 纳米比亚 、 米歇尔 、 米南德一世 、 米开兰基罗 、 艾尔米塔奇 、 多米尼加共和国

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• 卷九十六　志第四十五上: 食貨四 Volume 96 Treatises 49: Finance and Economics 4 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 287
• 卷八十二 志第五十八 食貨六 Volume 82 Treatises 58: Finance and Economics 6 History of Ming 明史 — count: 76
• 《米部》 Mǐ Radical Shuo Wen Jie Zi 說文解字 — count: 60
• 卷一百七十五 志第一百二十八 食貨上三 Volume 175 Treatises 128: Finance and Economics 1c History of Song 宋史 — count: 59
• 卷五十八　志第三十九:　百官四 符制 印製 鐵券 官誥 百官俸給 Volume 58 Treatises 39: Official Posts 4 - Counting Systems, Printing, Iron Certificates, Official Proclamations, Official Salaries History of Jin 金史 — count: 44
• 卷十五　本紀第十五: 世祖十二 Volume 15 Annals 15: Shizu 12 History of Yuan 元史 — count: 43
• 卷七十九 志第五十五 食貨三 Volume 79 Treatises 55: Finance and Economics 3 History of Ming 明史 — count: 43
• 卷七十八 志第五十四 食貨二 Volume 78 Treatises 54: Finance and Economics 2 History of Ming 明史 — count: 43
• 卷一百七十八 志第一百三十一 食貨上六 Volume 178 Treatises 131: Finance and Economics 1f History of Song 宋史 — count: 38
• 卷一百七十二 志第一百二十五 職官十二 Volume 172 Treatises 125: Offical Posts 12 History of Song 宋史 — count: 35

Collocations

• 米石 (米石) 米石千六百 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《秦始皇本紀》 Annals of Qin Shi Huang — count: 8
• 米肉 (米肉) 賜天下鰥寡孤獨窮困及年八十已上孤兒九歲已下布帛米肉各有數 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《孝文本紀》 Annals of the Xiaowen Emperor — count: 7
• 溢米 (溢米) 朝一溢米 — The Book of Rites 禮記, 《喪大記》 The Greater Record of Mourning Rites — count: 6
• 米盐 (米鹽) 米鹽博辯 — Han Feizi 韓非子, 說難第十二 Chapter 12: Difficulties of Persuasion — count: 6
• 数米 (數米) 數米而炊 — Huainanzi 淮南子, 卷十四　詮言訓 Chapter 14: Explanation of Sayings — count: 4
• 米百 (米百) 米百筥 — The Book of Etiquette and Ceremonial 儀禮, 聘禮 第八 8. Rites of courtesy calls — count: 4
• 米二 (米二) 賜黔首里六石米二羊 — Records of the Grand Historian 史記, 《六國年表》 Yearly Chronicle of the Six States — count: 3
• 米粟 (米粟) 掌米粟之出入 — Rites of Zhou 周禮, 地官司徒 第二 2. Office of Earth and Minster of Education and Social Welfare — count: 3
• 米糒 (米糒) 離宮別館儲峙米糒薪炭 — Book of Later Han 後漢書, 卷十上 皇后紀 Volume 10a: Annals of Empresses 1 — count: 3
• 负米 (負米) 常食藜藿之實而為親負米百里之外 — Garden of Stories 說苑, 卷三 建本 Chapter 3: Building a Foundation — count: 3