Jisho

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6 strokes
Radical:
rice
Parts:
rice, USA, metre
Kun:
こめよね
On:
ベイマイメエトル
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N3
61 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

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On reading compounds

  • 米 【ベイ】 (United States of) America, USA
  • 米価 【ベイカ】 rice price
  • 在米 【ザイベイ】 being in the United States, staying in the United States, residing in the United States
  • 対米 【タイベイ】 relating to the USA, toward America, with America
  • 精米 【セイマイ】 rice polishing, polished rice
  • 白米 【ハクマイ】 polished rice, (uncooked) white rice

Kun reading compounds

  • 米 【こめ】 (husked grains of) rice, staple (product, etc.), necessity, (online) comment
  • 米倉 【こめぐら】 rice granary
  • お米 【おこめ】 (husked grains of) rice
  • アルボリオ米 【アルボリオこめ】 arborio rice (Italian variety)
  • 米 【よね】 88 years old, rice
  • 米沢牛 【よねざわぎゅう】 Yonezawa beef
  • 白米 【はくまい】 polished rice, (uncooked) white rice

Readings

Japanese names:
は、 べ、 まべ、 め、 よ、 よな、 よの、 よま
Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mi3
Korean:
mi

Spanish

  • arroz
  • América
  • arroz (crudo)

Portuguese

  • arroz
  • EUA

French

  • grain de riz
  • Amérique
  • un mètre
135 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
220 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
201 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
90 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
3461 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
112 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
803 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
343 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3.8 Japanese for Busy People
224 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
224 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
562 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
1493 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
4342 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2198 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2958 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
928 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
26832 Morohashi
3529 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
4380 New Nelson (John Haig)
919 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
987 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
155 The Kanji Way to Japanese Language Power (Dale Crowley)
135 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1064 2001 Kanji
6b0.1 The Kanji Dictionary
4-6-3 SKIP code
9090.4 Four corner code
1-42-38 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
7c73 Unicode hex code

13 strokes
Radical:
rat, mouse
Parts:
Variants:

Speed

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On reading compounds

  • 鼠疫 【ソエキ】 plague, pest
  • 鼠害 【ソガイ】 damage by rats or mice
  • 海鼠 【ナマコ】 sea cucumber (Holothuroidea spp.)
  • 飛鼠 【ヒソ】 bat (animal)

Kun reading compounds

  • 鼠 【ねずみ】 mouse, rat, dark gray, dark grey, slate (color, colour)
  • 鼠穴 【ねずみあな】 rathole, mousehole
  • 藍鼠 【あいねずみ】 indigo-tinged grey (gray)
  • 臭鼠 【においねずみ】 muskrat (Ondatra zibethicus)
  • 鼠 【ねずみ】 mouse, rat, dark gray, dark grey, slate (color, colour)
  • 鼠子 【ねずこ】 Japanese arborvitae (Thuja standishii)
  • 藍鼠 【あいねずみ】 indigo-tinged grey (gray)
  • 梅鼠 【うめねず】 grayish pink, rose grey

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
shu3
Korean:
seo

Spanish

  • ratón
  • rata

Portuguese

French

5417 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2430 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
3340 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
48390 Morohashi
2693 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
7078 New Nelson (John Haig)
2065 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2856 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
0a13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
2-6-7 SKIP code
2-5-7 SKIP code
7771.7 Four corner code
1-33-45 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9f20 Unicode hex code