The kanji 米: meaning, readings and stroke order
米
- Meaning
- rice, America
- On reading
- ベイ bei、マイ mai
- Kun reading
- こめ kome
- Strokes
- 6
- Radical
- 米 rice
- Level
- Level 2 · grade 2
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- gạo, nước Mỹ (mễ)
- Japanese
- こめ。アメリカ。
- Korean
- 쌀, 미국 (미)
- Chinese
- 大米、美国
Readings, words and example sentences
ベイ bei · on reading
米国
the United States, America
米国から 手紙が 来ました。
A letter came from America.
マイ mai · on reading
新米
new rice of the year
新米で ごはんを たきます。
We cook rice with this year's new rice.
こめ kome · kun reading
米
rice (grain)
田で 米を 作ります。
People grow rice in the rice fields.
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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.