# 米 — Rice

Frequency rank 479 / 2,608 in published Japanese.

Frequent enough that you will keep running into it once you read past headlines.

More common than 渡 (Transit), less common than 局 (Bureau).

- On’yomi: べい、まい
- Kun’yomi: こめ
- Radical: 米 Rice (Kangxi 119)
- Frequency path: Level IV of XX

The character 米 (rice) looks like a stalk with grains scattering in all directions — each stroke is a grain of rice bursting from the center.

In words:

- 米 こめ — uncooked rice
- 南米 なんべい — South America
- 欧米 おうべい — Europe and America,the West

[Study 米](https://app.kanjidrift.com/study?kanji=%E7%B1%B3)

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