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HSK
(cooked) rice
HSK 1
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  *河* | 河* | *河
river (CL:條|条,) / (bound form) the Yellow River / (bound form) the Milky Way / (bound form) (on restaurant menus) rice noodles 河粉
HSK 2
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  *米* | 米* | *米
uncooked rice / meter (unit of length) / (slang) Chinese yuan
HSK 2
(husked) rice
HSK 6
electric rice cooker
HSK 5
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  *饭* | 饭* | *饭
cooked rice / CL: / meal / CL: 頓|顿 / (loanword) fan / devotee
HSK 1
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  *精* | 精* | *精
essence / extract / vitality / energy / semen / sperm / mythical goblin spirit / highly perfected / elite / the pick of sth / proficient (refined ability) / extremely (fine) / selected rice (archaic)
HSK 6
boiled or deep-fried balls of glutinous rice flour, usually eaten during Lantern Festival
HSK 7-9
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  *酒* | 酒* | *酒
wine (esp. rice wine) / liquor / spirits / alcoholic beverage / CL: , , , ,
HSK 2
glutinous rice and choice of filling wrapped in leaves and steamed or boiled
HSK 7-9
rice wine
topping (mixture of ingredients and sauce poured over noodles or rice, esp. in Shanghainese cuisine)
rice bowl / fig. livelihood / job / way of making a living
HSK 7-9
paddy (rice)
rice in gravy, typically with meat and vegetables
the rice is cooked / what's done is done / it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
to eat one's rice with an accompanying dish (to make the rice more palatable) / (of a dish) to go well with rice
rice / paddy / CL:
HSK 7-9
seedling (of rice or other grain) / CL:
HSK 7-9
plain cooked rice / rice with nothing to go with it
two-item combo (usu. referring to a food dish, esp. two types of meat served with rice or noodles) / (real estate) duplex; semi-detached / (computing) double pinyin (input method in which each syllable is typed using no more than two keystrokes: one for the initial consonant and one for the final)
lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt (idiom) / fig. life's daily necessities
(allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜, who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary
water in which rice has been boiled and then strained out
lit. firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea / fig. life's daily necessities
Lantern Festival / night of the 15th of the first lunar month / see also 元夜 / sticky rice dumplings
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  *淘* | 淘* | *淘
to wash (rice, sand etc in water to remove impurities) / to dredge; to scoop out (sediment or waste) / (dialect) to hunt for and buy (bargains or second-hand goods) / (dialect) naughty; mischievous
HSK 7-9
sweet fermented rice / glutinous rice wine
The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without equipment.
rice (crop) / unhulled rice
rice congee made with red beans, lotus seeds, longan, red dates, nuts etc
Laba rice porridge festival, on the 8th day of the 12th lunar month
grain (of rice) / granule
Eight Treasures Rice, Chinese rice pudding dessert usually made with eight types of candied fruits, nuts, seeds etc, popular during the Lunar New Year
lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it (idiom) / fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off / to go for wool and come back shorn
paddy field; rice paddy
rice straw
HSK 7-9
rice ear
(polished) rice
glutinous rice (Oryza sativa var. glutinosa)
egg fried rice (made by stir-frying cold cooked rice with eggs and vegetables)
fried rice / millet stir-fried in butter
Yangzhou fried rice, featuring scrambled egg, diced vegetables and multiple proteins – typically shrimp and barbecued pork
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  *甑* | 甑* | *甑
cauldron / rice pot
five crops, e.g. millet , soybean , sesame , barley 麥|麦, rice or other variants / all crops / all grains / oats, peas, beans and barley
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  *筛* | 筛* | *筛
(bound form) a sieve / to sieve; to sift; to filter / to eliminate through selection / to warm a pot of rice wine (over a fire or in hot water) / to pour (wine or tea) / (dialect) to strike (a gong)
HSK 7-9
black rice; purple rice
to eat plain rice / (fig.) to eat and not pay for it / to sponge off others / to freeload
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  *稻* | 稻* | *稻
paddy / rice (Oryza sativa)
refined rice
rice cracker
small sausage in large sausage (pork sausage stuffed inside a glutinous rice sausage, a Taiwanese street food specialty)
char kway teow (stir-fried flat rice noodles, a Southeast Asian dish)
red yeast (so called, although it's actually a mold, not a yeast), a fermentation product created by culturing rice with the mold Monascus purpureus, producing red pigments and bioactive compounds, used in food for its color, as a flavor enhancer, and for its health benefits
plain cooked rice (as opposed to rice porridge)
unhusked rice / paddy
rice-flour noodles
brown rice
half-cooked rice / (fig.) half-finished job that is difficult to complete because it was not done properly in the first instance / Taiwan pr. [jia4 sheng5 fan4]
rice cooker
rice flour / rice-flour noodles / (Internet slang) Xiaomi fan
grain of rice / granule
glutinous rice wine / fermented glutinous rice
fried glutinous rice dough cake
to fill a bowl with rice
coarse rice / coarse (of food)
refined grain (rice, wheat etc)
ciba, glutinous rice cake
rice noodle roll, a roll made from sheets of rice flour dough, steamed and stuffed with meat, vegetables etc
to soak cooked rice in soup or water / cooked rice reheated in boiling water
rice (crop)
rice milk
glutinous rice / sticky rice
gimbap, aka kimbap (Korean dish made by rolling up steamed rice and other ingredients in a sheet of nori)
kind of dumpling / sticky rice ball
to stir-fry leftover rice / fig. to rehash the same story / to serve up the same old product
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  *糜* | 糜* | *糜
rice gruel / rotten / to waste (money)
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  *糯* | 糯* | *糯
(bound form) glutinous rice / (bound form) (of cereal grain) glutinous
to transplant rice seedlings
long-grained rice (Indian rice, as opposed to round-grained rice 粳米)
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  *糈* | 糈* | *糈
official pay / sacrificial rice
sponge cake (light steamed flour or rice cake)
rice tub (from which cooked rice or other food is served) / (fig.) fathead / a good-for-nothing
nian gao, New Year cake, typically a sweet, steamed cake made with glutinous rice flour
fried rice / (Tw) (slang) to have sex
grain crops other than rice and wheat
grain of cooked rice
(Tw) wagui, a sticky rice pudding, usu. savory (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [uánn-kué])
to provide alms and rice (idiom)
paddy field / rice paddy
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  *䉤* | 䉤* | *䉤
basket for draining rice
long-grained rice (Indian rice, as opposed to round-grained rice)
(Tw) minced pork stewed with soy sauce and spices (served with rice or noodles, or as a filling in buns etc) / Taiwan pr. [rou4 sao4]
unfiltered rice wine
rice paddle
Condoleezza Rice (1954-), US Secretary of State 2005-2009
sapling; seedling; sprout; (esp.) rice seedling / stem; stalk; vine / baby livestock; fry / (dialect) (derog.) suffix used to indicate a type of person
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  *粳* | 粳* | *粳
round-grained nonglutinous rice (Japonica rice) / Taiwan pr. [geng1]
Rice (name) / Condoleezza Rice (1954-) US Secretary of State 2005-2009
chicken in rice wine / also translated drunken chicken

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