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玉米

yù mǐ

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 5 2-character word Measure word 粒

玉米 (yù mǐ) means "corn". It is an HSK 3.0 level 5 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 玉米 means

1. corn
2. maize

The characters in 玉米

• 玉yùjade
• 米mǐuncooked rice; meter (unit of length); (slang) Chinese yuan

Example sentences

• 我玉米过敏。
  I'm allergic to corn.
• 我喜欢玉米。
  I like corn.
• 我不喜欢玉米。
  Wǒ bù xǐhuan yùmǐ.
  I don't like corn.
• 这玉米很新鲜。
  This corn is fresh.
• 我用玉米搭配豇豆。
  I combined black-eyed beans with corn.
• 我买了一包冰冻玉米。
  Wǒ mǎi le yī bāo bīngdòng yùmǐ.
  I bought a bag of frozen corn.

Words starting with 玉米

• 玉米面yù mǐ miàncornmeal; maize flour
• 玉米棒yù mǐ bàngcorn cob
• 玉米片yù mǐ piàncornflakes; tortilla chips
• 玉米粉yù mǐ fěncornflour; corn starch
• 玉米粒yù mǐ lìcorn kernel
• 玉米糕yù mǐ gāocorn cake; polenta (corn mush)
• 玉米花yù mǐ huāpopcorn
• 玉米饼yù mǐ bǐngcorn cake; Mexican tortilla
• 玉米糖浆yù mǐ táng jiāngcorn syrup
• 玉米赤霉烯酮yù mǐ chì méi xī tóngzearalenone
• 玉米淀粉yù mǐ diàn fěncorn starch
• 玉米笋yù mǐ sǔnbaby corn
• 玉米糁yù mǐ sǎncorn grits

Words containing 玉米

• 老玉米lǎo yù mi(dialect) corn
• 爆玉米花bào yù mǐ huāto make popcorn; popcorn
• 高果糖玉米糖浆gāo guǒ táng yù mǐ táng jiānghigh-fructose corn syrup (HFCS)

Where 玉米 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Nature, Plants & Agriculture (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

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• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read yù mǐ correctly.
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