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米 — uncooked rice; meter; Chinese yuan

Pinyin
mǐ · Mǐ
Strokes
6
HSK level
HSK 1
Handwriting
recognition only

This character has more than one reading — mǐ, Mǐ — and the pronunciation depends on the word it appears in. The list below gives the syllabus reading for each word.

How to write 米: 6 strokes

Each cell adds one stroke to the previous ones, with the new stroke in red. Stroke order is not decoration: it sets the proportions of the character and makes handwriting legible to a reader. The syllabus asks you to recognise this character rather than write it by hand.

米 — 6 strokes, in writing order from left to right.

Build a printable practice sheet with 米

Words with 米 in the HSK syllabus: 8

Every word in the official 2026 syllabus that contains this character, with the level it is introduced at. Learning a character pays off through these: each one combines with the characters you already know.

  1. 米饭mǐfànriceHSK 1
  2. 米mǐuncooked rice; meter; Chinese yuanHSK 3
  3. 大米dàmǐriceHSK 5
  4. 厘米límǐcentimeterHSK 5
  5. 玉米yùmǐcorn; maizeHSK 5
  6. 毫米háomǐmillimeterHSK 6
  7. 平方米píngfāngmǐsquare meterHSK 6
  8. 立方米lìfāngmǐcubic meterHSK 7–9

Glosses come from CC-CEDICT, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and are the dictionary’s first sense rather than a translation chosen for context.