老米

Chinese

 
old; aged; venerable; outdated; experienced; (affectionate prefix)
rice; meter
simp. and trad.
(老米)

Pronunciation


Noun

老米

  1. old rice
  2. (during the Ming and Qing Dynasty) 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
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