米 Rice

Radical Combination

• 米

  Rice

Meaning

Primary

Rice

Alternative

America

Mnemonic

The rice radical and rice are the same in looks as well as in meaning. This also refers to "America," maybe because America is covered in rice or fields or something?

Hints

Aren't radicals nice? They make things so much easier... if you've been studying them.

Readings

On’yomi

べい, まい

Kun’yomi

こめ

Nanori

None

Mnemonic

You've got tons of dry grains of rice. You have no idea what you're going to do with it. Then, you come up with a solution. All this dry rice could go towards filling up the bay (べい), so you have more land to farm on!

Hints

In your mind, bulldoze the rice into the bay, watching it fill it up, then pile high. It's not particularly good looking land, but it'll do, and it's already full of seeds, so that's pretty good. The important thing is that you think you have way too much of the stuff, so the only way to get rid of it is to dump it in a large body of water, and that large body of water is a bay.