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).

麥 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.
to press from either side / to place in between / to sandwich / to carry sth under armpit / wedged between / between / to intersperse / to mix / to mingle / clip / folder / Taiwan pr. [jia2]

= + : The mean crocodile (丷) is waiting for the bus to go to work in front of the ashram (a1). He prepared to sandwiches (夹) for lunch: One with Joan of Arc (ji) and one with a construction worker (夫).
double-layered / lined (garment)
Taiwan pr. used in 夾生|夹生[jia1 sheng1] and 夾竹桃|夹竹桃[jia1 zhu2 tao2]

Characters with 麥 as component

variant of 麵|面[mian4]
flour / noodles / (of food) soft (not crunchy) / (slang) (of a person) ineffectual / spineless
yeast / Aspergillus (includes many common molds) / Taiwan pr. [qu2]
variant of 麴|曲[qu1]
surname Qu
mark (loanword) / also pr. [ma4]
bran
surname Qu
variant of 麵|面[mian4]
pastry / cake
porridge
barley

Words with 麥

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)
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 麥

麥 currently does not appear in any sentence.