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麦

wheat; barley; oats; mic (abbr. for 麥克風|麦克风[mai4 ke4 feng1])

7 strokes Dict coverage rank #704 U+9EA6

How 麦 is formed

Ideographic compound (会意字)

Simplified form of 麦; grains 來 ready to be harvested 夂

components: 龶 夂

How to remember it

wheat · Heisig RSH #1206

grow up + walking legs

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

Characters built with 麦 as their sound component

These characters all use 麦 (mài) as their phonetic component — compare how they read:

CharacterPinyinMeaning
麦 sound component mài wheat, barley, oats
唛 mài mark

Words containing 麦

WordPinyinMeaning
麦克白夫人 Mài kè bái Fū ren Lady Macbeth
大麦克指数 Dà Mài kè Zhǐ shù see 巨無霸漢堡包指數|巨无霸汉堡包指数[Ju4 wu2 ba4 han4 bao3 bao1 Zhi3 shu4]
大麦地 Dà mài dì place name in Ningxia with rock carving conjectured to be a stage in the development of Ch…
大麦克 Dà Mài kè Big Mac (McDonald's hamburger) (Tw)
麦尔维尔 Mài ěr wéi ěr (name) Melville; Herman Melville (1819–1891), US novelist, author of Moby Dick 白鯨|白鲸[Bai2 …
麦克白 Mài kè bái Macbeth (name); Macbeth, 1606 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
开麦拉 kāi mài lā (Tw) (loanword) camera
麦克风 mài kè fēng (loanword) microphone
麦金塔电脑 Mài jīn tǎ diàn nǎo Macintosh (brand of computers made by Apple); Mac
麦克米兰 Mài kè mǐ lán McMillan or MacMillan (name); Harold Macmillan (1894-1986), UK conservative politician, pr…
麦德龙 Mài dé lóng Metro supermarket chain (originally German)
麦德林 Mài dé lín Medellín, city in Colombia
布格麦 bù gé mài bulgur (loanword)
麦克德莫特 Mài kè dé mò tè McDermott (name)
麦克维 mài kè wéi (Timothy) McVeigh
麦金塔 Mài jīn tǎ see 麥金塔電腦|麦金塔电脑[Mai4 jin1 ta3 dian4 nao3]
麦司卡林 mài sī kǎ lín (chemistry) (loanword) mescaline
麦子 mài zi wheat; CL:株[zhu1]
同传耳麦 tóng chuán ěr mài simultaneous interpretation headset
大麦 dà mài barley