米

rice / CL:粒[li4] / meter (classifier)

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

one of the characters used in kwukyel, an ancient Korean writing system

(bound form) tree / (bound form) wood / unresponsive; numb; wooden

Jamie / Jim

(name) Jamie; Jim

Jeremy (name)

Amminadab (son of Ram)

see 榻榻米[ta4 ta4 mi3]

Pygmy

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]

(allusion to Tao Qian 陶潛|陶潜[Tao2 Qian2], who used this phrase when he resigned from government service rather than show subservience to a visiting inspector) to bow and scrape for five pecks of rice (that being a part of his salary as a local magistrate) / (fig.) to compromise one's principles for the sake of a salary

Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (Taoist movement) / Way of the Celestial Master

Alpha and Omega