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米

米 is a Japanese kanji written with 6 strokes, listed here under the keyword “rice”. It is treated as a basic building block: it is not broken down any further here. In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 987. It appears as a component in 42 other characters in this index.

Keyword
rice
RTK frame
987
Strokes
6
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
ベイ, マイ, メエトル
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
こめ, よね
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
рис
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
米 hulled or husked uncooked rice

Decomposition

No decomposition is listed: this shape is used whole.

Characters that contain 米

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