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米 (こめ, kome) Japanese meaning: rice | Kotomora
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Rinse the rice and then put it in the rice cooker.
I bought rice from Niigata.
Usage patterns 米こめ を 研と ぐ to wash/rinse rice (before cooking)
I rinse the rice before cooking it.
〈 事こと 〉 に 米こめ を 書か く to post an (online) comment on something
I tried leaving a comment on the video.
米こめ を 炊た く to cook rice
I cook rice every morning and eat it.
米こめ が 不ふ 足そく する for there to be a rice shortage
There is a rice shortage this year due to bad weather.
米こめ を 輸ゆ 入にゅう する to import rice
This country imports rice from abroad.
Expressions 米こめ の 飯めし cooked rice · something one never tires of 米こめ 百ひゃっ 俵ぴょう enduring hardship today for future benefit; hundred sacks of rice (literal) Related words 米 refers to rice as raw or harvested grains, while ご飯 usually means rice that has been cooked (or a meal in general).
コメント is the full, neutral word for an online comment, while 米 (written コメ) is a clipped Internet-slang shorthand for the same thing.
米 is the everyday, general word for rice, while 舎利 is sushi-shop jargon for the seasoned rice used to make nigiri.
米 is the everyday word for rice as food, while 米穀 is a formal term used in commercial, agricultural, or policy contexts.
米 refers to rice in general as a food or crop, while 米粒 specifically means a single grain of rice.
Don't confuse with· 5 稲 is the living rice plant growing in a paddy field, while 米 is the harvested, husked grain taken from it.
米 refers to raw, uncooked rice grains, while 米飯 specifically means rice that has already been cooked.
米 (こめ) means 'rice' and is pronounced the same as コメ, but コメ in katakana is internet slang for 'comment'.
Show 2 more Counted with For small grain-like items — beans, pills, drops, tears, pearls.
For straw bales of rice, grain, or charcoal (米一俵).
Counts bagfuls or sackfuls.
Word family· 49 rice granary; rice storehouse
rice bran
rice bin; rice chest · breadwinner; source of income
rice-producing region; rice-growing area · rice seller; rice shop · restaurant specializing in rice dishes
Written forms 米こめ Usage 63%
Standard common kanji spelling for rice and the metaphorical 'staple' sense.
コメ Usage 36%
kana-only spelling
Katakana spelling given. It is especially associated with the Internet-slang sense 'comment'; for ordinary rice, 米 is the standard spelling.
こめ Usage 1%
Etymology The kanji 米 is the conventional spelling associated with rice. The historical derivation of the native reading こめ is not specified here; the slang コメ is a clipped form of コメント.
米べい
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'.
玄くろ 米ごめ
brown rice; unpolished rice; unmilled rice · black rice; forbidden rice
Show 10 more rice; husked grains of rice
uncooked rice
straw rice bag; bale of rice
kanji 'rice' radical at left
komejirushi; Japanese asterisk-like symbol (※)
rice shop; rice dealer
rice shop; rice store
northern Japanese hemlock; Tsuga diversifolia
rice-bran oil
rice flour
