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

rye (Secale cereale)
corn (Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [huan-be̍h])
glutinous barley
headphones / earphones
(bird species of China) red-wattled lapwing (Vanellus indicus)
naked oat (Avena nuda)
variant of 油麥菜|油麦菜[you2 mai4 cai4]
Herman Melville (1819-1891), US novelist, author of Moby Dick 白鯨|白鲸[bai2 jing1]
(bird species of China) river lapwing (Vanellus duvaucelii)
(of two people in different locations) to sing or otherwise perform together using communications technology
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war
see 針尖對麥芒|针尖对麦芒[zhen1 jian1 dui4 mai4 mang2]
sharply opposed to each other, with neither prepared to give an inch (idiom)
corn (from Taiwanese, Tai-lo pr. [huan-be̍h])
shumai (shao mai) steamed dumpling / also written 燒賣|烧卖[shao1 mai4]

Sentences with 麦

麦 currently does not appear in any sentence.