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Rice in Chinese

rice · HSK 3

米 mǐ

家里的米快吃完了。 We're almost out of rice at home.

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How do you say rice in Chinese?

Rice in Chinese is 米 (mǐ). You can also say 大米 (dà mǐ), 水稻 (shuǐ dào).

Which word should I use?

Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.

Where do these words come from?

The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.

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