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Brownrice
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Dan McKay
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CC BY 2.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Par cooked brown rice - stonesoup cropped
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jules
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CC BY 2.0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Cropped and resized

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Brown rice used for cooking
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Adityamadhav83
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Wikimedia Commons
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Cropped and resized

糙米

cāomǐ
noun #47,837

Measure Word

一斤糙米 jīn

Meanings

  1. 1 brown rice
  2. 2 unpolished rice

About the ingredient

粮食 Grains and noodles

Rice with only the husk removed, so the bran stays on: light brown, chewy and nutty, and slower to cook than white rice. It is often soaked first or cooked mixed with white rice.

Examples

HSK 4
为了健康，她改吃糙米饭。
Wèile jiànkāng, tā gǎi chī cāomǐ fàn.
For health reasons, she switched to eating brown rice.
HSK 5
糙米比白米更有营养。
Cāomǐ bǐ bái mǐ gèng yǒu yíngyǎng.
Brown rice is more nutritious than white rice.

Tips

memory
糙 means 'rough; coarse' - 糙米 is literally 'rough rice', i.e. rice with the bran layer left on. Contrast 精米 'polished rice'.

Stroke Order

糙 cāo
米 mǐ