rice / CL:粒[li4] / meter (classifier)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a sack of rice.

Marilyn Monroe and the mean crocodile celebrate Christmas with a Christmas tree inside of the space station. Coincidentally they got each other the same present: each of them is giving the other one a sack of rice.

米 character breakdown

"eight" component in Chinese characters / archaic variant of 八[ba1]

Mnemonic symbol: a crocodile with mean eyes. Beelzebub (b) is fighting with eight crocodiles (丷) in front of the ashram (a1).
one of the characters used in kwukyel, an ancient Korean writing system
(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a Christmas tree.

Malte Monkey (mu) is setting up a Christmas tree (木) in the bathroom of the space station (Ø4). He decorates the tree with eight-balls (八) and puts a holy cross (十) at the top of the tree.

Characters with 米 as component

rough / coarse (in texture)
grain / food / provisions / agricultural tax paid in grain

= + : Li Qingzhao (li) delivered a sack of rice (米) to the anglepod's kitchen (ang2). They were very thankful since they were out of food, so they gave Li Qingzhao a thank you card (良) and the first dish of the new food (粮) they produced.
material / stuff / grain / feed / to expect / to anticipate / to guess

= + : Li Qingzhao sees the matador fighting a sack of rice in the aorta's bathroom. At least she thinks she is fighting the sack of rice as he is repeatedly stabbing it. Truth is that he is working as inspector and taking samples of the rice to inspect the material.
deep pool / deep / profound
essence / extract / vitality / energy / semen / sperm / mythical goblin spirit / highly perfected / elite / the pick of sth / proficient (refined ability) / extremely (fine) / selected rice (archaic)

= + : Joan of Arc scoops a bit of water from the fountain of youth in front of the engine and pours it into a bowl of rice. The water refines the rice into rice wine, and as Joan of Arc drinks it, she finds her spirit renewed.
surname Lou / one of the 28 lunar mansions in Chinese astronomy

= + : Bessie Coleman (女) invited Sir Lancelot (l) over for dinner in her lunar mansion (娄) in the outhouse's kitchen (ou2). Because Lancelot is extremely hungry, he brings a sack of rice (米) as a present for his host.
to continue / to follow after / to go on with / to succeed / to inherit / then / afterwards

= + + : Joan of Arc (ji) has to watch how a sack of rice (米) falls on the silk worm (纟) in the space station's bathroom (Ø4) and squeezes the silk worm to death. Joan of Arc, while burying the silk worm with a shovel (乚) under a heap of rice, swears to continue (继) the silk worm's work. She will take over the silk worm's jacket and earthenware bowl (继) and continue (继) its work to build the ultimate cocoon.
sugar / sweets / candy / CL:顆|颗[ke1],塊|块[kuai4]

= + : Tecumseh (t) was happily eating his Tanghulu (糖) just inside the anglepod's kitchen (ang2) when he fell over a sack of rice (米). Now his Tanghulu is sticking to his tang jacket (唐), which annoys him a lot.
old variant of 糖[tang2]

= + : Tecumseh (t) was happily eating his Tanghulu (糖) just inside the anglepod's kitchen (ang2) when he fell over a sack of rice (米). Now his Tanghulu is sticking to his tang jacket (唐), which annoys him a lot.
dregs / draff / pickled in wine / rotten / messy / ruined

= + : Zorro (z) found a very rotten, dead (糟) herring (曹) in a sack of rice (米) and now the rice is a total waste (糟). He gets rid of the rice and the herring in front of the aorta (ao1).
manure / dung

= + : The communist (共) and Frankenstein's Monster (f) are preparing a rice plantation in the encampment’s bathroom ((e)n4). They first fill the bathtub with manure (粪), and then proceed to drop rice corns from a sack of rice (米) on the manure.
old variant of 辨[bian4]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: a sampling tool. Brunhilde (bi) wants to distinguish a huge banana (丿) from a sack of rice (米) in the anthill's bathroom (an4), so she sticks her sampling tool (釆) into each of them and takes a small sample.
cake

= + : The lamb (羔) is happily charging at an unguarded cake (糕) in front of the aorta (ao1). However, it's a trap set up by Guy Fawkes (g) who wants to teach it a lesson: as the lamb is just about to bite in the cake Guy Fawkes lets a sack of rice (米) fall down on the cake, splattering it all about the lamb's face and body.
variant of 糕[gao1]

= + : The lamb (羔) is happily charging at an unguarded cake (糕) in front of the aorta (ao1). However, it's a trap set up by Guy Fawkes (g) who wants to teach it a lesson: as the lamb is just about to bite in the cake Guy Fawkes lets a sack of rice (米) fall down on the cake, splattering it all about the lamb's face and body.

Words with 米

(name) Jamie; Jim
see 榻榻米[ta4 ta4 mi3]
a person who doesn't manage a household would not be aware how expensive it is (idiom)
lit. to try to steal a chicken only to end up losing the rice used to lure it (idiom) / fig. to try to gain an advantage only to end up worse off / to go for wool and come back shorn
see 偷雞不成蝕把米|偷鸡不成蚀把米[tou1 ji1 bu4 cheng2 shi2 ba3 mi3]
Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (Taoist movement) / Way of the Celestial Master

Sentences with 米

yuán
lái
shì
wu̅
gui̅
 
 
xia̅
mǐ
èr
jiàng