日本人将八十八岁称米寿。因“米”字可拆成“八十八”，故称88th birthday; rice birthday; the character 米 can be disassembled into the characters 八十八, meaning 88

• 公眉先生诗文集编辑工作已经完成，恰逢他的八十八岁“米寿”，希望我能写篇序言。

  The work of editing and compiling Mr Gongmei's collection of poetry and prose is complete. On the occasion of his 88th birthday, he asked me to write a preface.