Character Details
| rice | Ascii: 24352 | w413 | |||||||||
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| Hanyu | Pinyin | Pronunciation | Tone | Components/Primitives | Wiktionary | Alt Sounds | |||||
| 米 | mǐ | mee | 3 | 米 (rice) → rice | 米 link | ||||||
| Picture | Character Story | ||||||||||
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The first two strokes could represent “chopsticks” with which one eats the rice. The rest then is the “tree,” meaning “rice plant” in this context. | ||||||||||
| Notes | |||||||||||
| [HSK 1] - — | |||||||||||
| Examples | |||||||||||
| - I'd like rice | - I want one bowl of rice | ||||||||||
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| Single Character Decomposition | |||||||||||
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| Radical | Name | Label | Domain | Component Persona | Example Characters | ||||||
| 120 - 示 | shì | bamboo | altar | altar shape | 示 票 | ||||||
| Elements | Semantic Element | Phonetic Element | Note | ||||||||
| 米 (rice) → rice | 米 (semantic) | — | pure semantic | ||||||||