大米, photo 1 of 2
大米, photo 2 of 2

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Photo
Handful of rice
By
Beatrice Murch
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CC BY 2.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Cropped and resized

Photo credit

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Basmati Rice India, raw
By
cookbookman17
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CC BY 2.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Cropped and resized

大米

dàmǐ
noun HSK 5 #11,635

Meanings

  1. 1 rice (husked, uncooked)
  2. 2 rice grain

About the ingredient

粮食 Grains and noodles

Husked white rice, sold in sacks and steamed or cooked into congee. Bags name the kind: 粳米 is short-grain and soft, the northern and eastern kind; 籼米 is long-grain and less sticky, grown in the south.

Also called  米、 白米、 稻米

Characters

Big rice - husked rice grains, ready to cook.

Examples

HSK 3
Dōngběi dàmǐ hěn yǒumíng.
Northeastern rice is very famous.
HSK 3
Qǐng mǎi wǔ jīn dàmǐ huílái.
Please buy five jin of rice.
HSK 5
Yóuyú tiānqì yuányīn, jīnnián dàmǐ de jiàgé shàngzhǎng le bùshǎo.
Due to the weather, the price of rice has risen quite a bit this year.

Tips

usage
Rice vocabulary: 大米 (uncooked husked rice), 米饭 (cooked rice), 稻子 (rice plant/paddy), 糯米 (glutinous rice). When shopping, you buy 大米; when eating, you eat 米饭.

Stroke Order

大 dà
米 mǐ