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米
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Definitions
- 1. rice
- 2. meter (classifier)
Example Sentences
1 shown那個長30 米 。
Sentence data courtesy of Tatoeba.org.
Words Containing 米
sago
Vladimir
the rice is cooked
millimeter wave (radio signal)
omega (Greek letter Ωω)
tapioca pudding
off-white; creamy white
Omega SA, Swiss luxury watchmaker
Dominica
Crimea
Milliband (name)
Mitt Romney (1947-), US Republican contender 2012
see 榻榻米[tà tà mǐ]
Mikhail Prokhorov (1965-), Russian billionaire and owner of the Brooklyn Nets (NBA team)
(fig.) supply of grain to the public
(dialect) corn
metric system
the Commonwealth of Dominica
It's too late to change anything now.
tiramisu (loanword)
to rinse rice
decimeter
Lanping Bai and Pumi autonomous county in Nujiang Lisu autonomous prefecture 怒江傈僳族自治州[nù jiāng lì sù zú zì zhì zhōu] in northwest Yunnan
Miquan, county-level city in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州[chāng jí huí zú zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang
Ermitazh or Hermitage museum in St Peterburg
Book of Nehemiah
David Miliband (1965-), UK politician
nanotechnology
Jimmy, Jimmie or Jimi (name)
cornflakes
congee
glutinous rice wine
Mesopotamia
Jeremy or Jeremiah (name)
rice granary
Tamil Nadu, southeast Indian state, capital Chennai 欽奈|钦奈[qīn nài]
millimicron or one-millionth of a millimeter
Gorgon fruit
omega (Greek letter Ωω)
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
millimeter
kilometer
(name) Jamie; Jim
rice-flour noodles
Nimitz class, US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, 8 in commission since 1975
glutinous rice flour
popcorn
genmaicha
Bellamy
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), Italian born US nuclear physicist
(polished) rice
The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom); You won't get anywhere without equipment.
the Lamentations of Jeremiah
omicron (Greek letter Οο)
lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt
(allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜[táo qián], 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)
Mills (name)
rice (crop)
Ermitazh or Hermitage museum in St Peterburg
Cocoa Krispies
square meter
Mickey Mouse
Dominican Republic
Fermi (name)
Media (ancient Middle east region)
high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)
rice milk
baby corn
Milano
lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it (idiom)
domino (loanword)
cubic meter (unit of volume)
corn
Pakistan administered Kashmir
Pamir high plateau on the border between Xinjiang and Tajikistan
rice flour
amoeba (loanword)
luminol (chemistry) (loanword)
beige
cubic centimeter
lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom); fig. it is done and can't be changed
Tamil Tigers
Xiaomi, Chinese electronics company founded in 2010
brand names include Zeffix, Heptovir, Epivir and Epivir-HBV
(Internet slang) (loanword) #MeToo (movement against sexual harassment and assault)
dominoes
Minardi, Formula 1 racing team
the Sami people, indigenous people in northern Scandinavia
Amminadab (son of Ram)
shrimp
Mizhi County in Yulin 榆林[yú lín], Shaanxi
FC Internazionale Milano (football club)
chicken nuggets
grains of Job's tears plant 薏苡[yì yǐ]
newton meter (Nm)
Michael (name)
Kashmir
broomcorn millet (Panicum spp.)
Mi Fu (1051-1107), Song poet and calligrapher
MiG
corn grits
dexamethasone
Mikoyan (name)
rice flour meat
Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (Taoist movement)
cashmere (loanword)
Mira (red giant star, Omicron Ceti)
Aramaic (language)
Minoan (civilization on Crete)
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, author of Don Quixote 堂吉訶德|堂吉诃德[táng jí hē dé]
cornflour
amoeba
square kilometer
Mainling county, Tibetan: Sman gling rdzong, in Nyingchi prefecture 林芝地區|林芝地区[lín zhī dì qū], Tibet
corn cake
corn cake
corn starch
lazy bones (dialect)
cashmere (loanword)
Alpha and Omega
McMillan or MacMillan (name)
rice cracker
FC Internazionale Milano (football club)
semipolished rice (i.e. rice minus the husk, but including the germ)
rice tube pudding, a single-serve column of glutinous rice topped with a sauce and garnished (Taiwanese dish, originally prepared by stuffing rice into bamboo tubes and steaming them)
to make popcorn
Zepp Health Corporation, Chinese company providing digital health management based on wearable devices, established in 2013
dried shrimps
Miquan, county-level city in Changji Hui autonomous prefecture 昌吉回族自治州[chāng jí huí zú zì zhì zhōu], Xinjiang
salami (loanword)
Book of Jeremiah
puffed rice
Pavel Aleksandrovich Mif (1901-1938), Ukrainian Soviet expert on Chinese affairs, secretly executed in Stalin's purges
Tamil Nadu, southeast Indian state, capital Chennai 欽奈|钦奈[qīn nài]
millibar (unit of pressure)
corn cob
Bohemia, historical country of central Europe
Micah
Michel or Mitchell (name)
rice cake dumpling
FC Internazionale Milano (football club)
mu (Greek letter Μμ)
cornmeal; maize flour
Japanese rice wine
fried rice
Taiwan round-grained glutinous rice (Japonica rice)
brown rice
Tunmi Sanghuzha (6th century AD), originator of the Tibetan script
glutinous rice (Oryza sativa var. glutinosa)
rice milling machine
Pamir high plateau on the border between Xinjiang and Tajikistan
centimeter
sticky rice
refined rice
Amminadab (name)
Mickey Mouse
nano- (prefix meaning \nanoscale\)
sashimi (loanword)
shelled peanuts
Ed Milliband, UK labor politician, opposition leader from 2010
long-grained rice (Indian rice, as opposed to round-grained rice 粳米[jīng mǐ])
Chester William Nimitz (1885-1966), US admiral
Pygmy
bran
zearalenone
Emir (Muslim ruler)
Joan Miró (1893-1983), Spanish surrealist painter
United States
(cooked) rice
rice noodle soup from Yunnan province
rice and noodles
100-meter dash
Jeremy (name)
Maximilian or Maximilien (name)
tiramisu (loanword)
Casimir effect (attraction between two parallel metal plates due to quantum mechanical vacuum effects)
coarse rice
to beg for food
Armageddon (in Revelation 16:16)
the Pamir mountains
granulation
rice weevil
Semitic
disordered and fragmentary
Mickey or Mitch (name)
nanometer
corn syrup
West Midlands, UK county, capital Birmingham 伯明翰[bó míng hàn]
Michelin (tire company)
Koshihikari rice (variety of rice popular in Japan)
Jimmy Liao (1958-), pen name of 廖福彬[liào fú bīn], Taiwanese illustrator and picture book writer
Middlebury (College)
millimeter of mercury
corn
Miyi county in Panzhihua 攀枝花[pān zhī huā], south Sichuan
glutinous rice cake
Tamil language
amebiasis
Prometheus, a Titan god of fire in Greek mythology
Pumi ethnic group
West Midlands, UK county, capital Birmingham 伯明翰[bó míng hàn]
Hamilcar (c. 270-228 BC), Carthaginian statesman and general
polished round-grained nonglutinous rice (Japonica rice)
(husked) rice
tatami (loanword from Japanese)
micron (one thousandth of a millimeter or 10^-6 meter)
grain of rice
Miyi county in Panzhihua 攀枝花[pān zhī huā], south Sichuan
polished glutinous rice
to flatter
Milton (name)
newton meter, unit of torque (symbol: N⋅m)
Mizhi County in Yulin 榆林[yú lín], Shaanxi
lit. firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy, vinegar, and tea
Tamil
(lit.) land of fish and rice
Dominica
Rice Krispies
see 偷雞不成蝕把米|偷鸡不成蚀把米[tōu jī bù chéng shí bǎ mǐ]
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Renaissance painter and sculptor
instant results
lit. the rice has already been cooked (idiom)
meme (loanword)
Michaela (name)
Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC)
Boshiamy, input method editor for Chinese (from Taiwanese 無啥物, Tai-lo pr. [bô-siánn-mih] \it's nothing\)
grains of Job's tears plant 薏苡[yì yǐ]
Naomi (name)
amebic dysentery
Mainling county, Tibetan: Sman gling rdzong, in Nyingchi prefecture 林芝地區|林芝地区[lín zhī dì qū], Tibet
sashimi (loanword)
Bohemia, historical country of central Europe
same as 朝天椒[cháo tiān jiāo]
rice paper
Union Jack (flag of the United Kingdom)
small shrimp; dried, shelled shrimps
Namibia
(dialect) corn
rice kept for many years
(physics) fermion
square meter