米 — kanji meaning “rice”
米
rice, USA, metre
- Meanings
- rice, USA, metre
- On'yomi
- ベイ (bei)、マイ (mai)、メエトル (meetoru)
- Kun'yomi
- こめ、よね
- Name readings
- は、べ、まべ、め、よ、よな
- Strokes
- 6
- School grade
- 2
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 2
- Newspaper frequency
- #61 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 119
- Chinese reading
- mǐ — Chinese character page
Words with 米
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 米国 | べいこく beikoku | (United States of) America; USA; US |
| 新米 | しんまい shinmai | new rice; first rice crop of the year |
| 全米 | ぜんべい zenbei | all of the United States; the whole of the USA |
| 南米 | なんべい nanbei | South America |
| 白米 | はくまい hakumai | polished rice; (uncooked) white rice |
| 中南米 | ちゅうなんべい chuunanbei | Central and South America |
| 玄米 | げんまい genmai | unpolished rice; unmilled rice; brown rice |
| 訪米 | ほうべい houbei | visit to the United States |
| 米価 | べいか beika | rice price |
| 米倉 | こめぐら komegura | rice granary |
| 欧米 | おうべい oubei | Europe and the United States; Europe and America; the West |
| 反米 | はんべい hanbei | anti-American |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.