米 mǐ▶ nasi

Stroke order

米 is written in 6 strokes.

• 米

Senses

1. uncooked rice
2. meter (unit of length)
3. (slang) Chinese yuan

Example sentences

• 我们家每天吃米饭。Wǒmen jiā měitiān chī mǐfàn.Our family eats rice every day.
• 这条路有五百米长。Zhè tiáo lù yǒu wǔ bǎi mǐ cháng.This road is five hundred metres long.

Related words

• 厘米sentimeter
• 玉米Jagung
• 米饭nasi
• 毫米milimeter

米 is pronounced mǐ and means “nasi”. It belongs to the HSK 3 vocabulary, one of the six bands of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi, China’s official Chinese proficiency exam. Recognising 米 on a page and producing it in conversation are different skills, and only the second holds up when someone is waiting for an answer — so LexiTrail brings it back just as your memory of it starts to fade, not on a fixed weekly rota.