麦 - Dong Chinese dictionary

mài

wheat

Simplified form of 麥. The top component 來 depicts a stalk of wheat. The bottom component depicts roots.

Components

來 Sound Iconic Simplified component

lái

come

Depicts a stalk of wheat.

◎ Iconic component

characterless component

Depicts roots.

Evolution

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)

Bronze script

Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

麦 (麥)

mài

wheat, barley, oats; KangXi radical number 199; wheat; barley; oats

麦 (麥)

Mài

surname Mai

Most common words with 麦

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	麦	wheat
	麦克	Mike (name)
	小麦	wheat
	麦当劳	MacDonald or McDonald (name)
	丹麦	Denmark

Component uses

Meaning component in 1 character (0 verified)

麸

Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)

唛

Iconic component in 1 character (1 verified)

啬

Remnant component in 1 character (1 verified)

啬

Statistics

HSK level 6

Appears in 26.1092% of movies

788th most common character in movies

1171st most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes	7
Traditional	麥
Unicode	U+9EA6
Shuowen	“麥，芒穀。秋穜厚薶，故謂之麥。麥，金也。金王而生，火王而死。从來，有穗者。从夕。”

Sources

MTSU Chinese text computing

季旭昇《說文新證》p.465

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