粳米

Chinese

		Japonica rice	rice; meter
simp. and trad. (粳米)		粳	米

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): jīngmǐ

(Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄥㄇㄧˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): gang¹ mai⁵
Min Nan (POJ): keng-bí

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Pinyin: jīngmǐ
  - Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄥㄇㄧˇ
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jingmii
  - IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵ mi²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: gang¹ mai⁵
  - Yale: gāng máih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: gang¹ mai⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: geng¹ mei⁵
  - IPA ^(key): /kɐŋ⁵⁵ mɐi̯¹³/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien: Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: keng-bí
  - Tâi-lô: king-bí
  - Phofsit Daibuun: kengbie
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /kiɪŋ³³ bi⁵⁵⁴/
  - IPA (Xiamen, Zhangzhou): /kiɪŋ⁴⁴⁻²² bi⁵³/

Noun

粳米

Husked round-grained non-glutinous uncooked rice, or japonica rice. (An herb used in traditional Chinese medicine to moderate/reduce the "heat" in herbs such as ginseng.)

See also

药材 (medicinal materials of traditional Chinese medicine)

References

粳米 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh
Nigel Wiseman, "English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary of Chinese Medicine", 1995. →ISBN.
http://www.trade.gov.bt/administration/mktbriefs/10.pdf
http://www.koreantk.com/en/m_sta/med_stat_search.jsp?searchGbn=statis
http://www1.dict.li/ and http://www.nciku.com/

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