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米
Meaning
- uncooked rice
- meter (unit of length)
- (slang) Chinese yuan
Example sentence
鸟喜欢大米。
The bird likes rice.
The character 米
米 draws grains scattered round a stalk: rice uncooked, where 饭 is rice cooked and ready. It is also the metre — 一百米 — with 厘米 and 毫米 measuring below it.