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

Madison (name) / Madison, capital of Wisconsin
Tracy McGrady (1979-), former NBA player
McDonnell Douglas (plane company)
Mekit nahiyisi (Makit county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang
Manama, capital city of Bahrain
beer; ale / (archaic) alcoholic drink made from fermented wheat or barley
see 麥金塔電腦|麦金塔电脑[Mai4 jin1 ta3 dian4 nao3]
Macintosh (brand of computers made by Apple) / Mac
dwarf lilyturf (Ophiopogon japonicus), its tuber used in TCM
variant of 邁阿密|迈阿密[Mai4 a1 mi4]
mic hog / person who monopolizes the mike at karaoke party (hegemon 霸 of the microphone 麥克風|麦克风)
Big Mac hamburger (Tw) (old) / now referred to (in Taiwan) as 大麥克|大麦克[Da4 Mai4 ke4]
Mekit nahiyisi (Makit county) in Kashgar prefecture 喀什地區|喀什地区[Ka1 shi2 di4 qu1], west Xinjiang

Sentences with 麦

麦 currently does not appear in any sentence.