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HSK
(cooked) rice
HSK 1
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *米* | 米* | *米
uncooked rice / meter (unit of length) / (slang) Chinese yuan
HSK 2
centimeter
HSK 4
corn / maize / CL:
HSK 4
(husked) rice
HSK 6
square meter
HSK 6
angstrom (Å)
rice wine
Michelangelo (Tw)
(Internet slang) (loanword) #MeToo (movement against sexual harassment and assault)
Zepp Health Corporation, Chinese company providing digital health management based on wearable devices, established in 2013
the rice is cooked / what's done is done / it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
nanometer
meter (unit of length) (loanword) (old)
millimeter
HSK 4
kilometer
(slang) cat
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *米* | 米* | *米
surname Mi
(Tw) nanometer / nano- (prefix meaning "nanoscale")
cubic meter (unit of volume)
HSK 7-9
Xiaomi, Chinese electronics company founded in 2010
millet
to beg for food
corn cake / Mexican tortilla
lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt (idiom) / fig. life's daily necessities
Crimea
(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
The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without equipment.
decimeter
corn starch
Casimir effect (attraction between two parallel metal plates due to quantum mechanical vacuum effects)
Naomi (name)
nanotechnology
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
(polished) rice
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (American media company)
Book of Jeremiah
cornflour / corn starch
corn kernel
glutinous rice (Oryza sativa var. glutinosa)
a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom)
fried rice / millet stir-fried in butter
black rice; purple rice
Miyi county in Panzhihua 攀枝花, south Sichuan
refined rice
the Lamentations of Jeremiah
corn cob
100-meter dash
Mickey Mouse
Milano / Milan (Italy)
FC Internazionale Milano (football club) / abbr. for 國際米蘭足球俱樂部|国际米兰足球俱乐部
cornflakes / tortilla chips
rice-flour noodles
corn / maize (dialect)
brown rice
Mickey or Mitch (name)
Mickey Mouse
(loanword) emir; amir
meter stick; metric ruler one meter in length
rice flour / rice-flour noodles / (Internet slang) Xiaomi fan
grain of rice / granule
Kashmir
dominoes
omega (Greek letter Ω, ω) / also pr. [ou1mi3jia1]
millimeter of mercury / mmHg (unit of pressure)
glutinous rice wine / fermented glutinous rice
(fig.) supply of grain to the public
Dominican Republic
rice (crop)
rice milk
square meter (abbr. for 平方米)
micron (one thousandth of a millimeter or 10^-6 meter)
(physics) fermion
the Pamirs, highland region of Central Asia
long-grained rice (Indian rice, as opposed to round-grained rice 粳米)
wasabi (loanword) (Tw)
Jimmy, Jimmie or Jimi (name)
to flatter / to butter sb up
Jimmy Liao (1958-), pen name of 廖福彬, Taiwanese illustrator and picture book writer
Hamilcar (c. 270-228 BC), Carthaginian statesman and general
Bohemia, historical region in Central Europe / bohemian (i.e. artistic and unconventional)
Jeremy or Jeremiah (name)
sashimi (loanword)
bran
Tamil Nadu, southeast Indian state, capital Chennai 欽奈|钦奈 / formerly Madras state 馬德拉斯邦|马德拉斯邦
Mira (red giant star, Omicron Ceti)
congee
glutinous rice cake / CL: 塊|块
FC Internazionale Milano (football club) / abbr. for 國際米蘭足球俱樂部|国际米兰足球俱乐部
the Pamirs, highland region of Central Asia
rice milling machine
Mills (name)
Aspergillus oryzae (type of mold)
Namibia
small shrimp; dried, shelled shrimps / (Tw) (coll.) what (from Taiwanese 啥物, Tai-lo pr. [siánn-mih], equivalent to Mandarin 什麼|什么)
chicken nuggets / popcorn chicken
(loanword) domino

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