rice; husked rice grains
Refers to rice as grains, especially uncooked or as an agricultural product. Cooked rice is more often ご飯.
米を研いでから炊飯器に入れる。
Rinse the rice and then put it in the rice cooker.
I bought rice from Niigata.
staple; essential product; necessity
Metaphorical use: something fundamental or indispensable to an industry, society, or activity, like rice as a staple food.
半導体は現代の産業の米と呼ばれることがある。
Semiconductors are sometimes called the staple of modern industry.
online comment
Only with reading コメ
Internet slang, usually written コメ, referring to a comment posted on a video, article, stream, or social-media post.
See also: コメ
その動画に面白いコメがたくさん付いた。
That video got a lot of funny comments.
配信中はコメを全部読むのは難しい。
During a livestream, it is hard to read every comment.
I rinse the rice before cooking it.
I tried leaving a comment on the video.
I cook rice every morning and eat it.
There is a rice shortage this year due to bad weather.
This country imports rice from abroad.
米 read べい means 'America' (as in 米国), while the same kanji read こめ means 'rice'; only context or okurigana/compounds tells them apart.
米 refers to uncooked rice grains, whereas ライス always means cooked rice served on a plate, so learners sometimes mix up the two when translating 'rice'.
brown rice; unpolished rice; unmilled rice · black rice; forbidden rice