Component |
Pinyin |
Meanings |
米 |
mǐ |
1. hulled or husked uncooked rice |
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2. husked seed |
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3. grain-like things |
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4. (chiefly Cantonese) Short for 米粉 gloss=rice vermicelli |
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星洲.炒米 - Xīngzhōu chǎomǐ - Singapore-style noodles |
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雪菜 火鴨 絲 炆 米 - syut3 coi3 fo2 aap3 si1 man1 mai5 - braised rice vermicelli with pickled mustard and shredded roast duck, C |
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5. (Cantonese, Shanghainese Wu, slang) money |
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有 米 - jau5 mai5 - rich, C |
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背米 - tr=2pe+3mi, to earn money, SH - |
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6. (Shanghainese Wu, slang) ten thousand of a currency designation; ten grand |
mǐ |
7. metre |
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米 三 (bhi2 san1, MN-T) - 1.3 metres |
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我 有 一 米 九 高。 (Wǒ yǒu yī mǐ jiǔ gāo.) - I'm 1.9 metres tall. |
唐 |
táng |
1. (zh-used in, 荒唐); to exaggerate; to boast | |
2. (literary) exaggerative; boastful |
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3. (obsolete) vast; wide; extensive |
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4. (obsolete) road inside temple |
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5. (literary) in vain; to no avail |
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6. 50th tetragram of the Taixuanjing; "vastness, emptiness, pointlessness" (?) |
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7. Tang Dynasty (618–907) |
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唐詩 - Tang poetry |
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8. Later Tang (923–937), the second of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period |
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Synonyms: 後唐 |
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9. Southern Tang (937–976), a state in Southern China that existed during Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period |
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Synonyms: 南唐 |
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10. Tang, a legendary ancient Chinese dynasty established by Emperor Yao |
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Synonyms: 陶唐 |
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11. (figurative) China |
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唐人 - Chinese person |
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12. (obsolete) (Alternative form 蓎) dodder |
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13. (place, zh, t=Down, county, cc/Northern Ireland, c/UK) |
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唐 君-毅 - Tang Chun-i (20th-century Chinese philosopher) |