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charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *米* | 米* | *米
uncooked rice / meter (unit of length) / (slang) Chinese yuan
HSK 2
(cooked) rice
HSK 1
corn / maize / CL:
HSK 4
(husked) rice
HSK 6
centimeter
HSK 4
square meter
HSK 6
(Internet slang) (loanword) #MeToo (movement against sexual harassment and assault)
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
(Tw) long-grained non-glutinous rice
(loanword) emir; amir
meter (unit of length) (loanword) (old)
millimeter
HSK 4
Taiwan round-grained glutinous rice (Japonica rice)
kilometer
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *米* | 米* | *米
surname Mi
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
(Tw) nanometer / nano- (prefix meaning "nanoscale")
cubic meter (unit of volume)
HSK 7-9
Xiaomi, Chinese electronics company founded in 2010
millet
decimeter
Naomi (name)
Japanese rice wine / sake
(polished) rice
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (American media company)
Crimea
cornflour / corn starch
corn kernel
glutinous rice (Oryza sativa var. glutinosa)
fried rice / millet stir-fried in butter
(lit.) land of fish and rice / (fig.) fertile region / land of milk and honey
100-meter dash
black rice; purple rice
instant results / lit. blow the husk and see the rice
tiramisu (loanword)
refined rice
the Lamentations of Jeremiah
corn cob
Mickey Mouse
nanometer
cornflakes / tortilla chips
corn / maize (dialect)
brown rice
rice milling machine
Mickey or Mitch (name)
Mickey Mouse
meter stick; metric ruler one meter in length
rice flour / rice-flour noodles / (Internet slang) Xiaomi fan
grain of rice / granule
millimeter of mercury / mmHg (unit of pressure)
glutinous rice wine / fermented glutinous rice
(fig.) supply of grain to the public
rice (crop)
(loanword) domino
square meter (abbr. for 平方米)
micron (one thousandth of a millimeter or 10^-6 meter)
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
tiramisu (loanword)
long-grained rice (Indian rice, as opposed to round-grained rice 粳米)
beige
wasabi (loanword) (Tw)
Jimmy, Jimmie or Jimi (name)
(loanword) cashmere
Maximilian or Maximilien (name)
rice granary
a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom)
Tamil Tigers
mu (Greek letter Μμ)
Mills (name)
Milano / Milan (Italy)
Mikoyan (name) / Anastas Ivanonovich Mikoyan (1895-1978), Soviet politician, politburo member in the 1950s and 1960s / Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905-1970), brother of the politician and one designer of MiG military aircraft
Jeremy or Jeremiah (name)
Book of Jeremiah
sashimi (loanword)
bran
Armageddon (in Revelation 16:16)
dominoes
lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt (idiom) / fig. life's daily necessities
corn syrup
cooked white rice
Mira (red giant star, Omicron Ceti)
Mitt Romney (1947-), US Republican contender 2012
congee
nanotechnology
glutinous rice cake / CL: 塊|块
(name) Jamie; Jim
the Pamirs, highland region of Central Asia
Aspergillus oryzae (type of mold)
small shrimp; dried, shelled shrimps / (Tw) (coll.) what (from Taiwanese 啥物, Tai-lo pr. [siánn-mih], equivalent to Mandarin 什麼|什么)
Kashmir
same as 朝天椒
The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without equipment.
Bohemia, historical region in Central Europe / bohemian (i.e. artistic and unconventional)
(slang) (loanword) homie
corn grits
(HK) (name) Michael
rice paper / membrane of glutinous rice, used to wrap sweets etc
(dialect) corn
Zepp Health Corporation, Chinese company providing digital health management based on wearable devices, established in 2013
minced garlic / peeled garlic clove

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