水稻 shuǐdào rice
rice; paddy
How to remember 水稻: 水 water + 稻 rice plant = rice.
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How it is used
- Rice (the paddy plant/crop) - 种植水稻 (zhòngzhí shuǐdào) grow rice, 水稻田 (shuǐdào tián) rice paddy.
- Specifically the growing rice plant cultivated in flooded fields; measure word 株.
- Contrast 大米 (dàmǐ, uncooked rice grains) and 米饭 (mǐfàn, cooked rice); 水稻 is the crop in the field.
Example sentences
- 我爸种水稻。 Wǒ bà zhòng shuǐdào.My father grows rice.