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:
| Character | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 麦 sound component | mài | wheat, barley, oats |
| 唛 | mài | mark |
Words containing 麦
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |