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米 — 6 strokes ／ Radical「米」

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9Elementary year 2 ／ 6 strokes ／ Radical「米」
On
ベイ・マイべい・まい · bei · mai
Kun
こめkome
Meaning
rice

STROKE ORDER

Stroke order

ORIGIN

Origin

Grains of rice on the ear of the plant.

OFFICIAL READINGS

Readings and examples

Onベイべいbei米作べいさく米価べいか米食べいしょく
Onマイまいmai精米せいまい新米しんまい白米はくまい
Kunこめkome米べい米粒こめつぶ

Readings and example words from the official Jōyō kanji table.

COMPOUNDS

Compounds

  • お米おこめ

    rice

  • 新米しんまい

    new rice

More words with this kanji

  • 米倉こめぐら
  • 米俵こめだわら
  • 玄米げんまい
  • 欧米おうべい
  • 久米くめ
  • 米麴こめこうじ

EXAMPLE

Example

A sentence using this kanji

お米(こめ)を たきます。

I cook rice.

Nearby characters

The line style shows how they connect

新米米新new籵a deca…籾unhull…粂Kume粁kilome…粋pure毎every妹younge…吠bark玫a fine…枚counte…
CompoundRadicalReading

Compound

Map of radical 米Map of reading ベイAll maps

Stroke data from: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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