米已成炊 — Chinese idiom
米已成炊
mǐ yǐ chéng chuī
Meaning
- lit. the rice has already been cooked
- fig. what is done cannot be undone
Character by character
- 米mǐrice, millet, grain
- 已yǐalready; finished; to stop; then, afterwards
- 成chéngto accomplish; to become; to complete, to finish;
- 炊chuīmeal; to cook, to steam
Idioms sharing a character
- 柴米油盐 chái mǐ yóu yán
- 生米熟饭 shēng mǐ shú fàn
- 一夔已足 yī kuí yǐ zú
- 仅此而已 jǐn cǐ ér yǐ
- 往事已矣 wǎng shì yǐ yǐ
- 方寸已乱 fāng cùn yǐ luàn
- 方兴未已 fāng xīng wèi yǐ
- 有增无已 yǒu zēng wú yǐ
- 木已成舟 mù yǐ chéng zhōu
- 死而后已 sǐ ér hòu yǐ
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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