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  *饭* | 饭* | *饭
cooked rice / CL: / meal / CL: 頓|顿 / (loanword) fan / devotee
HSK 1
(cooked) rice
HSK 1
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  *酒* | 酒* | *酒
wine (esp. rice wine) / liquor / spirits / alcoholic beverage / CL: , , , ,
HSK 2
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  *米* | 米* | *米
uncooked rice / meter (unit of length) / (slang) Chinese yuan
HSK 2
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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
electric rice cooker
HSK 5
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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
(husked) rice
HSK 6
glutinous rice and choice of filling wrapped in leaves and steamed or boiled
HSK 7-9
boiled or deep-fried balls of glutinous rice flour, usually eaten during Lantern Festival
HSK 7-9
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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
rice / paddy / CL:
HSK 7-9
rice bowl / fig. livelihood / job / way of making a living
HSK 7-9
rice straw
HSK 7-9
seedling (of rice or other grain) / CL:
HSK 7-9
grain crops other than rice and wheat
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  *卢* | 卢* | *卢
(old) rice vessel / black / old variant of 廬|庐 / (slang) (Tw) troublesome / fussy
grain (of rice) / granule
unhusked rice / paddy
small sausage in large sausage (pork sausage stuffed inside a glutinous rice sausage, a Taiwanese street food specialty)
(medicine) hyperplasia / (abbr. for 增廣生員|增广生员) a scholar studying for the Ming dynasty imperial examinations who did not make the quota for support in the form of a monthly allowance of rice that students who made the quota received
Yangzhou fried rice, featuring scrambled egg, diced vegetables and multiple proteins – typically shrimp and barbecued pork
rice-flour noodles
polished round-grained nonglutinous rice (Japonica rice)
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  *秧* | 秧* | *秧
sapling; seedling; sprout; (esp.) rice seedling / stem; stalk; vine / baby livestock; fry / (dialect) to raise; to cultivate (plants or animals)
rice flour / rice-flour noodles / (Internet slang) Xiaomi fan
inner container (e.g. the rice pot inside a rice cooker, the vacuum bottle inside a thermos, the tank inside a hot water heater, the bladder of a football)
"yellow wine" (mulled rice wine, usually served warm)
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  *粄* | 粄* | *粄
(Hakka cuisine) snacks made from glutinous rice flour (rice cakes, noodles etc)
rice (crop)
rice husk
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  *烩* | 烩* | *烩
to braise / to cook (rice etc) with vegetables, meat and water
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  *稻* | 稻* | *稻
paddy / rice (Oryza sativa)
sweet fermented rice / glutinous rice wine
rice and noodles / rice flour / rice-flour noodles
plain cooked rice (as opposed to rice porridge)
ciba, glutinous rice cake
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  *甑* | 甑* | *甑
cauldron / rice pot
rice with meat and vegetables
sake (Japanese rice wine)
Lantern Festival / night of the 15th of the first lunar month / see also 元夜 / sticky rice dumplings
grain of rice / granule
to transplant rice seedlings
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  *粽* | 粽* | *粽
rice dumplings wrapped in leaves
paddy field; rice paddy
Rice (name) / Condoleezza Rice (1954-) US Secretary of State 2005-2009
guoba (scorched rice at the bottom of the pan)
to soak cooked rice in soup or water / cooked rice reheated in boiling water
fried rice / (Tw) (slang) to have sex
(polished) rice
seedling; (esp.) rice seedling
brown rice
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  *垱* | 垱* | *垱
(dialect) earthen dyke in a river or rice paddy (for irrigation purposes)
rice ball (steamed rice formed into a ball and stuffed with various fillings) / onigiri (Japanese-style rice ball)
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  *箪* | 箪* | *箪
round basket for cooked rice
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  *粿* | 粿* | *粿
rice cake (typically made with glutinous rice flour and steamed)
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  *糯* | 糯* | *糯
glutinous rice / sticky rice
paddy field / rice paddy
to stir-fry leftover rice / fig. to rehash the same story / to serve up the same old product
sweet fermented rice / glutinous rice wine
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  *砻* | 砻* | *砻
(dialect) tool used to hull rice (similar to a grain mill) / (dialect) to hull rice using this tool
incomplete meal of a single dish / meat or vegetable dish without rice or wine / rice without meat or vegetables
pilaf (rice dish popular in many parts of the world, including Xinjiang)
nian gao, New Year cake, typically a sweet, steamed cake made with glutinous rice flour
fried rice / millet stir-fried in butter
to rinse rice
rice cracker
rice with meat and vegetables
(lit.) land of fish and rice / (fig.) fertile region / land of milk and honey
rice (crop) / unhulled rice
giant Amazon snail (Ampullaria gigas spix) that has devastated rice paddies in China since its introduction in the 1980s
rice husk
lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt (idiom) / fig. life's daily necessities
polished glutinous rice
rice ear
fried glutinous rice dough cake
early season rice / rice at transplanting or still unripe
plain cooked rice / rice with nothing to go with it
five crops, e.g. millet , soybean , sesame , barley 麥|麦, rice or other variants / all crops / all grains / oats, peas, beans and barley
(transliteration of Japanese "mochi") sticky rice balls; mochi
rice tub (from which cooked rice or other food is served) / (fig.) fathead / a good-for-nothing
to fill a bowl with rice
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  *籹* | 籹* | *籹
cakes of rice-flour and honey
Manchurian wild rice , aka water bamboo, or its edible stem, which resembles a bamboo shoot
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  *泔* | 泔* | *泔
slop from rinsing rice
rice seedling bed
long-grained rice (Indian rice, as opposed to round-grained rice 粳米)
round-grained nonglutinous rice (Japonica rice)
well-aged wine with a mellow, rich taste / (esp.) yellow wine 黃酒|黄酒, made from rice or millet
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  *丼* | 丼* | *丼
(Tw) bowl of steamed rice with other food on top (loanword from Japanese "donburi")
husk (of rice etc); chaff
glutinous rice / sticky rice
puffed rice / popcorn
bamboo basket for rice-washing
sapling; seedling; sprout; (esp.) rice seedling / stem; stalk; vine / baby livestock; fry / (dialect) (derog.) suffix used to indicate a type of person
to pay taxes in kind (rice, cloth etc)
brewer's yeast / yeast for fermenting rice wine
(coll.) (of rice) to rise well (with cooking)
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  *蛘* | 蛘* | *蛘
a weevil found in rice etc
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  *粝* | 粝* | *粝
coarse rice

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