"Rice" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 mǐ fàn (cooked) rice
 mǐ rice / CL:粒[li4] / meter (classifier)
 dà mǐ (husked) rice
 shuǐ dào rice / paddy / CL:株[zhu1]
 dào mǐ rice (crop)
 bái mǐ (polished) rice
 dào zi rice (crop) / unhulled rice
 dào paddy / rice (Oryza sativa)
 Lài sī Rice (name) / Condoleezza Rice (1954-) US Secretary of State 2005-2009
 dào cǎo rice straw
 fàn wǎn rice bowl / fig. livelihood / job / way of making a living
 zòng zi glutinous rice and choice of filling wrapped in leaves and steamed or boiled
 nuò mǐ glutinous rice / Oryza sativa var. glutinosa
 yuán xiāo Lantern Festival / night of the 15th of the first lunar month / see also 元夜[yuan2 ye4] / sticky rice dumplings
 mǐ fěn rice flour / rice-flour noodles / (Internet slang) Xiaomi fan
 bào mǐ huā puffed rice / popcorn
 huáng jiǔ "yellow wine" (mulled rice wine, usually served warm)
 dào tián paddy field / rice paddy
 dào gǔ unhusked rice / paddy
 wǔ gǔ five crops, e.g. millet 粟[su4], soybean 豆[dou4], sesame 麻[ma2], barley 麥|麦[mai4], rice 稻[dao4] or other variants / all crops / all grains / oats, peas, beans and barley
 tāng yuán boiled or deep-fried balls of glutinous rice flour, usually eaten during Lantern Festival
 zá liáng grain crops other than rice and wheat
 jīng mǐ polished round-grained nonglutinous rice (Japonica rice)
 chǎo fàn fried rice / (slang) (Tw) to have sex
 nián gāo nian gao, New Year cake, typically a sweet, steamed cake made with glutinous rice flour
 fàn tuán rice ball (steamed rice formed into a ball and stuffed with various fillings) / onigiri (Japanese-style rice ball)
 mǐ lì grain of rice / granule
 shuǐ tián paddy field / rice paddy
 fàn tǒng rice tub (from which cooked rice or other food is served) / (fig.) fathead / a good-for-nothing
 diàn fàn bāo rice cooker
 bái fàn plain cooked rice / rice with nothing to go with it
 zǎo dào early season rice / rice at transplanting or still unripe
 chái mǐ yóu yán lit. firewood, rice, oil and salt / fig. life's daily necessities
 diàn fàn guō electric rice cooker
 cāo mǐ brown rice
 qīng jiǔ sake (Japanese rice wine)
 xiān dào long-grained rice (Indian rice, as opposed to round-grained rice)
 chā yāng to transplant rice seedlings
 tiě fàn wǎn secure employment (lit. iron rice bowl)
 mǐ miàn rice and noodles / rice flour / rice-flour noodles
 jīng dào round-grained nonglutinous rice (Japonica rice)
 pào fàn to soak cooked rice in soup or water / cooked rice reheated in boiling water
 yú mǐ zhī xiāng (lit.) land of fish and rice / (fig.) fertile region / land of milk and honey
 táo mǐ to rinse rice
 guō bā guoba (scorched rice at the bottom of the pan)
 xiān mǐ long-grained rice (Indian rice, as opposed to round-grained rice 粳米[jing1 mi3])
 shēng mǐ coarse rice / uncooked rice
 jiāo bái Manchurian wild rice 菰[gu1], aka water bamboo, or its edible stem, which resembles a bamboo shoot
 gān fàn plain cooked rice (as opposed to rice porridge)
 bā bǎo zhōu rice congee made with red beans, lotus seeds, longan, red dates, nuts etc
 jiǔ niàng sweet fermented rice / glutinous rice wine
 kōng kǒu incomplete meal of a single dish / meat or vegetable dish without rice or wine / rice without meat or vegetables
 hé miáo seedling (of rice or other grain) / CL:棵[ke1]
 cháng fěn rice noodle roll, a roll made from sheets of rice flour dough, steamed and stuffed with meat, vegetables etc
 yuán zi kind of dumpling / sticky rice ball
 nuò mǐ fěn glutinous rice flour
 dào suì rice ear
 là bā zhōu Laba congee, ceremonial rice porridge dish eaten on the 8th day of the 12th month in the Chinese calendar
 cí bā sticky rice cake
 shēng mǐ zhǔ chéng shú fàn the rice is cooked / what's done is done / it's too late to change anything now (idiom)
 dào ké rice husk
 hé fěn rice noodles in wide strips
 jīng essence / extract / vitality / energy / semen / sperm / mythical goblin spirit / highly perfected / elite / the pick of sth / proficient (refined ability) / extremely (fine) / selected rice (archaic)
 diàn guō electric rice cooker (Tw)
 Shào xīng jiǔ Shaoxing wine a.k.a. "yellow wine", traditional Chinese wine made from glutinous rice and wheat
 niǎn mǐ rice milling
 jiāng mǐ polished glutinous rice
 jiā shēng fàn half-cooked rice / (fig.) half-finished job that is difficult to complete because it was not done properly in the first instance / Taiwan pr. [jia4 sheng5 fan4]
寿 fú shòu luó giant Amazon snail (Ampullaria gigas spix) that has devastated rice paddies in China since its introduction in the 1980s
 jiǔ wine (esp. rice wine) / liquor / spirits / alcoholic beverage / CL:杯[bei1],瓶[ping2],罐[guan4],桶[tong3],缸[gang1]
 niǎn mǐ jī rice milling machine
 fàn cooked rice / CL:碗[wan3] / meal / CL:頓|顿[dun4] / (loanword) fan / devotee
 nuò dào glutinous rice / sticky rice
 lú (old) rice vessel / black / old variant of 廬|庐[lu2] / (slang) (Tw) troublesome / fussy
 mí rice gruel / rotten / to waste (money)
 nuò glutinous rice / sticky rice
 zèng cauldron / rice pot
 bài polished rice / old variant of 稗[bai4]
 jīng round-grained nonglutinous rice (Japonica rice) / Taiwan pr. [geng1]
 yáng a weevil found in rice etc
 lì coarse rice
 gān slop from rinsing rice
 dān round basket for cooked rice
 xiān long-grained rice / same as 秈
 gū Manchurian wild rice (Zizania latifolia), now rare in the wild, formerly harvested for its grain, now mainly cultivated for its edible stem known as 茭白筍|茭白笋[jiao1 bai2 sun3], which is swollen by a smut fungus / (variant of 菇[gu1]) mushroom
 cí sticky rice cake
 xī ground rice / thresh rice
 sù pot of cooked rice
 mén porridge / rice sprouts
 xǔ official pay / sacrificial rice
 bài polished rice
 cí fried rice cake
 sǒu basket for draining rice
 tú sticky rice
 zhāng food / white cooked rice
粿 guǒ rice cake (typically made with glutinous rice flour and steamed)
 jù cakes made from rice flour twisted into rings
 chuī kāng jiàn mǐ instant results / lit. blow the husk and see the rice
 qiǎo fù nán wéi wú mǐ zhī chuī The cleverest housewife cannot cook without rice (idiom) / You won't get anywhere without equipment.
 shēng mǐ zuò chéng shú fàn lit. the raw rice is now cooked (idiom) / fig. it is done and can't be changed / It's too late to change anything now. / also written 生米煮成熟飯|生米煮成熟饭
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