surname Mai

= + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) is practising an exotic dance in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). For the dance he wears nothing but a fancy headdress (龶) and high heels (夂), and he is skilfully handling two fans made out of wheat (麦).
wheat / barley / oats

= + : Mahatma Gandhi (m) is practising an exotic dance in the airplane's bathroom (ai4). For the dance he wears nothing but a fancy headdress (龶) and high heels (夂), and he is skilfully handling two fans made out of wheat (麦).

麦 character breakdown

"walk slowly" component in Chinese characters / see also 冬字頭|冬字头[dong1 zi4 tou2]

= 丿 + : Mnemonic symbol: In high heels, one can walk only slowly. James II of England (zh) is wearing high heels (夂) inside the space station's living room (Ø3). He's not only walking slowly (夂), he even slips on a banana (丿)! He's lucky to land on a boxing glove (又) though.
component in Chinese characters, occurring in 青, 毒, 素 etc / see also 青字頭|青字头[qing1 zi4 tou2]

= + : Looks like a fancy headdress. The bachelor wears a really heavy headdress. He doesn't know it's full of mud.

Characters with 麦 as component

mark (loanword) / also pr. [ma4]
old variant of 麵|面[mian4]
bran
variant of 麩|麸[fu1]

Words with 麦

wheat / CL:粒[li4]
simultaneous interpretation headset
Big Mac (McDonald's hamburger) (Tw)
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]
place name in Ningxia with rock carving conjectured to be a stage in the development of Chinese characters
Dalmatian (dog breed)
naked oat (old)
unripe wheat grain (used in TCM)
(bird species of China) grey-headed lapwing (Vanellus cinereus)
lit. cannot tell beans from wheat (idiom); fig. ignorant of practical matters
Bismarck (name) / Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), Prussian politician, Minister-President of Prussia 1862-1873, Chancellor of Germany 1871-1890

Sentences with 麦

麦 currently does not appear in any sentence.