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

(bird species of China) northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)
marker pen (loanword)
McMillan or MacMillan (name) / Harold Macmillan (1894-1986), UK conservative politician, prime minister 1957-1963
dwarf lilyturf (Ophiopogon japonicus), its tuber used in TCM
rhombus of Michaelis (anatomy)
Mailiao township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县[Yun2 lin2 xian4], Taiwan
Mailiao township in Yunlin county 雲林縣|云林县[Yun2 lin2 xian4], Taiwan
flail / to thresh (using a flail)
(bird species of China) South Polar skua (Stercorarius maccormicki)
Melville (name) / Herman Melville (1819-1891), US novelist, author of Moby Dick 白鯨|白鲸[bai2 jing1]

Sentences with 麦

麦 currently does not appear in any sentence.