糯米 (nuò mǐ) — glutinous rice, sticky rice

Definition

noun

glutinous ricesticky rice

糯米。
Wǒ mā ma yòng nuò mǐ bāo le zòng zi.
My mother made zongzi with glutinous rice.
糯米。
nuò mǐ Kě yǐ yòng lái zuò tāng yuán.
Glutinous rice can be used to make tangyuan.
糯米。
Zhè zhǒng nuò mǐ shì jīn nián xīn chǎn de.
This kind of glutinous rice is newly harvested this year.

Compound word

构词法gòucífǎ

偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

糯nuòglutinous

糯 means glutinous and 米 means rice, giving glutinous rice.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

米 is a picture of rice kernels without husk, with the horizontal stroke as a bamboo sieve. It is unrelated to similar-looking grain characters.