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麥

麥

See also: 麦

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

麥 (radical 199 麥+0, 11 strokes, cangjie input 十人弓戈 (JONI), four-corner 40207, composition ⿱來夂)

  1. Kangxi radical #199, ⿆ ‎(“wheat”).

References

  • KangXi: page 1512, character 8
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47717
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2041, character 1
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 7, page 4600, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+9EA5

Chinese

trad. 麥
simp. 麦

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 麥
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (來) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
來 *m·rɯːɡ
萊 *rɯː, *rɯːs
淶 *rɯː
徠 *rɯː, *rɯːs
崍 *rɯː
郲 *rɯː, *ruːlʔ, *ruːlʔ
騋 *rɯː
猍 *rɯː
鯠 *rɯː
鶆 *rɯː
庲 *rɯː
棶 *rɯː
斄 *rɯː, *rɯ
逨 *rɯː, *rɯːs
麳 *rɯː
唻 *rɯːʔ, *rrɯː
賚 *rɯːs
睞 *rɯːs
勑 *rɯːs
誺 *rɯːs, *r̥ʰɯ, *r̥ʰɯs, *r̥ʰɯs
倈 *rɯ
憖 *ŋrɯns
猌 *ŋrɯns
麥 *mrɯːɡ

Pictogram (象形) – a wheat plant. Originally 來 was a pictogram for "wheat" and 麥, adding a foot beneath, was invented for the nearly homophonous word "come". With time, the simpler character became fixed as the writing of the more common word "come", leaving 麥 for "wheat".

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 麥
Mandarin Beijing /mai⁵¹/
Harbin /mai⁵³/
Tianjin /mai⁵³/
Jinan /mei²¹/
Qingdao /me⁴²/
Zhengzhou /mɛ²⁴/
Xi'an /mei²¹/
Xining /mɨ⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /mia¹³/
/mɛ¹³/
Lanzhou /mə¹³/
Ürümqi /mai²¹³/
/mei⁴⁴/
Wuhan /mɤ²¹³/
Chengdu /me³¹/
Guiyang /mɛ²¹/
Kunming /mə³¹/
Nanjing /məʔ⁵/
Hefei /mɐʔ⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /mai⁴⁵/
Pingyao /miʌʔ⁵³/
Hohhot /miaʔ⁴³/
Wu Shanghai /maʔ¹/
Suzhou /mɑʔ³/
Hangzhou /mɑʔ²/
Wenzhou /ma²¹³/
Hui Shexian /mɛ²²/
Tunxi /ma¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /mə²⁴/
Xiangtan /mai²⁴/
Gan Nanchang /mɑʔ²/
Hakka Meixian /mak̚⁵/
Taoyuan /mɑk̚⁵⁵/
Cantonese Guangzhou /mɐk̚²/
Nanning /mɐk̚²²/
Hong Kong /mɐk̚²/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /bik̚⁵/
/beʔ⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /maʔ⁵/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /ma⁴²/
Shantou (Min Nan) /beʔ⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /vɛ³³/
Rime
Character 麥
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 明 (4)
Final (韻) 麥 (119)
Tone (調) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 莫獲切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /mˠɛk̚/
Pan
Wuyun		 /mᵚæk̚/
Shao
Rongfen		 /mɐk̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /məɨjk̚/
Li
Rong		 /mɛk̚/
Wang
Li		 /mæk̚/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /mæk̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 mò
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 麥
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 mài
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ mɛk ›
Old
Chinese		 /*m-rˤək/ (dialect: *m-rˤ > *mˤr-)
English wheat

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 麥
Reading # 1/1
No. 7630
Phonetic
component		 來
Rime
group		 職
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 麥
Old
Chinese		 /*mrɯːɡ/

Definitions

麥

  1. wheat; barley; oats
  2. Short for 麥克風／麦克风 (màikèfēng, “microphone”).
  3. A surname​.

Compounds

References

Japanese

Kanji

麥

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji, kyūjitai kanji, shinjitai form 麦)

  1. wheat

Readings

Korean

Hanja

麥 • ‎(maek)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 맥 (revised: maek, McCune-Reischauer: maek, Yale: mayk)
  • Name (hangeul): 보리 (revised: bori, McCune-Reischauer: pori)
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Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

麥 (mạch)

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