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米

JLPT N3 SL2 6 strokes Frequency: #61

Meanings

Rice, Usa, Metre

Radicals

米

Decomposition

⿻丷木

Etymology

Pictographic: Grains of rice

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 6

Stroke Order

1 dot bottom-right-to-top-left

2 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

3 horizontal bottom-to-top

4 vertical right-to-left

5 diagonal top-right-to-bottom-left

6 diagonal bottom-right-to-top-left

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

メエトル meetoru

ベイ bei

マイ mai

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

こめ kome

よね yone

Words Using This Kanji

383 words total

Other (20 words)

中南米ちゅうなんべい

Central and South America

中米ちゅうべい

Central America

長粒米ちょうりゅうまい

long-grain rice

渡米とべい

going to the United States

homegrown rice

Chinese rice

South America

Japan and the United States

日米貿易にちべいぼうえき

trade between Japan and USA

日系米人にっけいべいじん

American of Japanese descent

日米安全保障条約にちべいあんぜんほしょうじょうやく

US-Japan Security Treaty

annual rice tax

polished rice

anti-American

stockpile rice (kept by the government to use as emergency provisions)

crushed rice

army rice

komejirushi

US Congress

spoiled rice

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