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Uncooked rice (meter)

Full dictionary entry HSK 3 10 sentences

米 (mǐ) means Uncooked rice (meter). Below are 10 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.

Dictionary examples

这条路有五百 长。

Zhè tiáo lù yǒu wǔbǎi mǐ cháng.

This road is five hundred metres long.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 ·

我家离超市只有三百

Wǒ jiā lí chāoshì zhǐyǒu sānbǎi mǐ.

My home is only three hundred metres from the supermarket.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 ·

我想吃 饭。

Wǒ xiǎng chī mǐfàn.

I want to eat rice.

Dictionary example · HSK 1 · 米饭

我们都爱吃 饭。

Wǒmen dōu ài chī mǐfàn.

We all love eating rice.

Dictionary example · HSK 1 ·

往西走五百 就到了。

Wǎng xī zǒu wǔbǎi mǐ jiù dào le.

Walk five hundred metres west and you're there.

Dictionary example · HSK 3 · 西

From the graded readers

我们喜欢吃 饭和菜。

wǒmen xǐhuan chī mǐfàn hé cài.

We like eating rice and vegetables.

Graded reader · HSK 1 · My Day

我说:“我想吃 饭和鱼。”

wǒ shuō:" wǒ xiǎng chī mǐfàn hé yú."

I said, "I'd like rice and fish."

Graded reader · HSK 1 · At the Restaurant

我说:“吃了,我做了 饭和菜。”

wǒ shuō:" chīle, wǒ zuòle mǐfàn hé cài."

I said, "Yes — I made rice and vegetables."

Graded reader · HSK 1 · A Phone Call

From the travel phrasebook

饭吗?

Yào mǐfàn ma?

Would you like rice?

Travel phrasebook · Reading a Chinese menu

尺寸差了两毫

Chǐcùn chà le liǎng háomǐ.

The size is two millimetres out.

Travel phrasebook · Quality problems and claims

Words that contain 米

Each of these has sentences of its own, so you can see the character doing a different job in each one.

Questions about 米

How is 米 used in a sentence?

This page shows 10 sentences using 米 (mǐ, "Uncooked rice (meter)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.

Are these sentences machine generated?

No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.

Why do some sentences show 米 inside a longer word?

Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 米 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.

Is 米 an HSK word?

Yes — 米 is on the official HSK 3 vocabulary list, and you can study it with the rest of that list on the HSK 3 page.

Where can I see the full entry for 米?

The dictionary page for 米 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.

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