Brown rice

Brown rice
Chinese name
Chinese糙米
Literal meaningrough rice
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyincāomǐ
Wade–Gilests'ao1-mi3
IPA[tsʰáʊmì]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanizationchou3 mai5
Jyutpingcou3 mai5
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabetgạo lứt
Thai name
Thaiข้าวกล้อง
Korean name
Hangul현미
Hanja玄米
Transcriptions
Revised Romanizationhyeonmi
Japanese name
Kanji玄米
Hiraganaげんまい
Transcriptions
Romanizationgenmai
Filipino name
Tagalogpinawà
Nepali name
Nepaliमार्सी चामल

Brown rice is a whole grain rice with the inedible outer hull removed. This kind of rice sheds its outer hull or husk but the bran and germ layer remain on, constituting the brown or tan colour of rice. White rice is the same grain without the hull, the bran layer, and the cereal germ. Red rice, gold rice, and black rice (also called purple rice) are all whole rices with differently pigmented outer layers.