Chinese symbol for “rice”
大米
dà mǐ
(husked) rice
The closest CC-CEDICT match for rice is 大米 (dà mǐ), defined as: (husked) rice.
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Characters and stroke order
Other Chinese words for “rice”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 水稻 | shuǐ dào | rice; paddy |
| 米饭 (米飯) | mǐ fàn | (cooked) rice |
| 稻米 | dào mǐ | rice (crop) |
| 白米 | bái mǐ | (polished) rice |
| 稻子 | dào zi | rice (crop); unhulled rice |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 大米.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone; influential family |
| 大量 | dà liàng | great amount; large quantity |
| 大陆 (大陸) | dà lù | continent; mainland; 块 (kuài) |
| 大会 (大會) | dà huì | general assembly; general meeting |
| 重大 | zhòng dà | great; important |
| 毫米 | háo mǐ | millimeter |
| 平方千米 | píng fāng qiān mǐ | square kilometer |
See also: Japanese symbol for “rice”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.