Definitions
(noun)
rice
(noun)
meter
Etymology
Pictograph of grains of rice.
About
The character 米 is an ideogram that visually depicts grains separated from stalks, with a central cross-like shape surrounded by small strokes suggesting threshed rice. Its primary meaning refers to husked rice or the edible seeds of grain crops. Through phonetic borrowing, it was later adopted as the standard translation for the meter, a metric unit of length, thus representing both a foundational agricultural staple and an international standard for measuring distance.
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米饭很好吃。
妈妈买了很多米。
大米是主要食物。
请给我一些小米。
这个房间宽三米。
她穿了一件米色外套。
米饭的营养价值很高。
用厘米测量这张纸。