米

Derived characters

 * Appendix:Chinese radical/米

Glyph origin
– rice kernels.

Etymology 1
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Definitions

 * 1) hulled or husked uncooked rice
 * 2) husked seed
 * 3) grain-like things
 * 4)  money
 * 5)  ten thousand of a currency designation; ten grand
 * 1)  money
 * 2)  ten thousand of a currency designation; ten grand
 * 1)  ten thousand of a currency designation; ten grand
 * 1)  ten thousand of a currency designation; ten grand
 * 1)  ten thousand of a currency designation; ten grand

Etymology 2
, from.

Definitions

 * 1) metre

Kanji

 * 1) rice
 * 2)  meter
 * 3)  America
 * 4)  United States

Etymology 1
→ * →

From. First appears in the ' of 720, with the phonetic ' spelling. In turn, from.

Many theories exist regarding the ultimate derivation:
 * Perhaps from, the of verb , from the way rice is farmed. The accent of kome in the Heian period is , while kome- in the Heian period is .
 * Possibly cognate with, modern.
 * Possibly cognate with and  .  However, this is extremely speculative; none of the known derivations from  develop initial /k/, nor is this shift explainable by any known mechanism within Japonic.

Noun

 * 1) rice husked grains of the Asian rice plant,, one of the

Etymology 2
→ * → * →

First attested in the  (938 ).

Possibly from (Vovin, 1998) and related to.

Unknown "-C-" consonantal segment, reconstructed by Vovin, seems unlikely considering vowel alternation, seen in bound form yona- and free form yone:
 * Compare from  +  against   from.

The colloquial sense is derived from the components of the kanji:  +  +.

Noun

 * 1) the Asian rice plant,
 * 2) rice husked grains of the Asian rice plant,
 * 3)  an eighty-eight-year-old
 * 1)  an eighty-eight-year-old

Etymology 3
Probably a shortened reduplication of kome (see above).

First cited to a work from 1275.

Noun

 * 1)  rice husked grains of the rice plant

Etymology 4
Borrowing from.

The use of this kanji is attested in the and is an example of, shortened from , see Chinese section above.

Noun

 * : metre SI unit of length
 * : meter (a device or implement used for measurement)

Coordinate terms
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 * {{ja-r/args|瓦|グラム|gram}}
 * {{ja-r/args|立|リットル|litre}}

Etymology 5
From.

Affix

 * 1) rice

Etymology
From.

Suffix

 * 1)  because, since

Reconstruction notes

 * This form is attested commonly in the  poems of the first millennium, but nowhere else.
 * In the twentieth century, this was conventionally compared to Modern, but this seems impossible given that the modern construction is a grammaticalization of elements not found in Old Korean, and is not attested in Middle Korean.
 * Some scholars believe it is a mere orthographic variant of.