米饭 mǐfàn▶ arroz

Stroke order

米饭 is written in 13 strokes across 2 characters.

• 米 — 6 strokes
• 饭 — 7 strokes

Example sentences

• 我想吃米饭。Wǒ xiǎng chī mǐfàn.I want to eat rice.
• 米饭和菜都很好。Mǐfàn hé cài dōu hěn hǎo.The rice and the dishes are both good.

Related words

• 饭店restaurante
• 米arroz
• 厘米centímetro
• 玉米Maíz
• 毫米milímetro

米饭 is pronounced mǐfàn and means “arroz”. You will meet it in HSK 1, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 米饭 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.