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Chinese
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old; aged; venerable old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix) |
rice; metre
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老
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米
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| simp. #(老米)
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老
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米
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Pronunciation
Noun
老米
- old rice
- rice shipped from the southern province to Beijing or Tongzhou, which ferments and changes into a brown color after being kept too long in the barns (during the Ming and Qing Dynasty)
Synonyms
- (old rice): 陳米／陈米 (chénmǐ); (Hokkien) 舊米／旧米