玉米 yùmǐ▶ Maíz

Stroke order

玉米 is written in 11 strokes across 2 characters.

• 玉 — 5 strokes
• 米 — 6 strokes

Senses

1. corn
2. maize

Related words

• 厘米centímetro
• 玉jade
• 毫米milímetro
• 米arroz
• 米饭arroz

玉米 is pronounced yùmǐ and means “Maíz”. You will meet it in HSK 5, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 玉米 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.