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Rice 米 America Meter ベイ、マイ、メエトル こめ、よね は べ

Kanji
Onyomi ベイ、マイ、メエトル
Kunyomi こめ、よね
Nanori は, べ, まべ, め, よ, よな, よの, よま
English rice, USA
Examples 南米(なんべい): South America
米(メートル): (1) metre; meter (2) meter (i.e. a gauge); gauge
米(こめ): (1) (husked grains of) rice (2) 88 years old
欧米(おうべい): Europe and America; the West
亜米利加(アメリカ): America
JLPT Level 3
Jouyou Grade 2
Frequency 61
Components 米: rice, rice radical (no. 119)
Number of Strokes 6
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 119
Radical Strokes 6
Radical Reading こめ・こめへん
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 象形 Pictographic
Keyword rice
Koohii Story 1 Stroke order: I like to think of the first two strokes as “chop sticks” with which one eats the rice. The rest then is the “tree” meaning “plant” in this contexct. also: USA.
Koohii Story 2 Two drops of rice in a tree, simple.

Tags: jlpt.n3, grade2, kanjifreq1-250, kanji_food.drink

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