mǐ
rice
Pictograph of grains of rice.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernComponent uses
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*(C.)mˤ[e]jʔ | mejX | mǐ | millet or rice grains, dehusked and polished |
Statistics
HSK level 2
Appears in 40.3812% of movies
512th most common character in movies
575th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+7C73 |
Shuowen | “米,粟實也。象禾實之形。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.579-580
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