This word first appeared in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty, and it is an pictograph. Its original meaning refers to the hulled seeds of cereals and other plants, and refers to the unit of length under the guise.

"Mi" is one of the radicals of Chinese characters, and the Chinese characters beside the word "Mi" are mostly related to food crops, such as cakes, grains, millet, rice noodles, porridge, paste, grain and sugar.

Writing source:

Ideographic characters like a pile of rice grains. The original picture has three points above and below a horizontal plane, and each point is like a grain of rice. Later, the two points in the middle of the top and bottom became long vertical lines, and then the two long vertical lines were connected and crossed with the original horizontal lines to form a cross.

After regular script, the left and right points below have become slaps, which originally meant a peeled fruit of a grain crop. Post semantic generalization refers to all peeled seeds, such as peanuts. It also refers to embroidery patterns such as fine rice, and also refers to quantifiers, indicating a small number.

Meal words:

Millet, Redmi, dried shrimps, glutinous rice, Mickey Mouse, corn, black rice, Coicis Semen, Mickey, popcorn, square meters, washed rice, dexamethasone, rice, japonica rice, rice flour, brown rice, mifei, yellow wine, Archimedes, cubic meters, centimeters, peanuts, rice, millimeters, beige and rice grains.

The idiom of the word rice:

Stealing chickens does not eat rice, raw rice is cooked, chaff and rice do not meet, measure firewood for a few meters, cook rice for a few meters, mix rice with mountains and rivers, make raw rice mature, chaff is ten meters, rice and rice are dry, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, rice and rice are cooked, and rice and salt are abundant.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Mi