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

microphone (loanword)
oatmeal / rolled oats
MacDonald or McDonald (name) / McDonald's (fast food company)
McCain (name) / John McCain (1936-2018), US Republican politician, Senator for Arizona 1987-2018
Macbeth (name) / Macbeth, 1606 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞|莎士比亚
General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war
Mecca, Saudi Arabia
wheat / CL:株[zhu1]
Maxwell (name) / James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879), Scottish physicist and mathematician, the originator of Maxwell's laws of electromagnetism and electromagnetic waves
Medina, Saudi Arabia
Medellín, city in Colombia
harvest season
straw from barley or wheat
Maiji district of Tianshui city 天水市[Tian1 shui3 shi4], Gansu
Maiji district of Tianshui city 天水市[Tian1 shui3 shi4], Gansu
Mt Maiji Caves at Tianshui 天水, Gansu
Manama, capital of Bahrain (Tw)

Sentences with 麦

麦 currently does not appear in any sentence.