麥

See also 麦

Translingual

Etymology

來 ("coming") + 夊 ("foot"); meaning the grain 來 that is coming 夊 (wheat)

Stroke order

Han character

麥 (radical 199 麥+0, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十人弓戈 (JONI), four-corner 4020₇)

1. wheat, barley, oats
2. KangXi radical number 199
3. Surname in China

References

• KangXi: page 1512, character 8
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47717
• Dae Jaweon: page 2041, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4600, character 1
• Unihan data for U+9EA5

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Cantonese

Hanzi

麥 (simplified 麦, jyutping maak6, mak6, Yale maak6, mak6)

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Hakka

Hanzi

麥 (POJ ma̍k, Guangdong mak⁸, Hagfa Pinyim mag6)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

麥

Readings

• On: ばく (baku)
• Kun: むぎ (mugi)

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Korean

Hanja

麥
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 맥 (revised: maek, McCune-Reischauer: maek, Yale: mayk)

• Name (hangeul): 보리 (revised: bori, McCune-Reischauer: pori)

Compounds

• 麥酒 (맥주)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

麥 (simplified 麦, pinyin mài (mai4), Wade-Giles mai⁴)

Compounds

麥當勞

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Vietnamese

Han character

麥 (mạch)