麥

See also: 麦

Translingual

Etymology

來 ("coming") + 夊 ("foot"); meaning the grain 來 that is coming 夊 (wheat)

Stroke order

Han character

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

1. wheat, barley, oats
2. KangXi radical number 199
3. a surname in China

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

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Chinese

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trad.		麥
simp.		麦

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): mài (mai⁴)

  (Zhuyin): ㄇㄞˋ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): maak⁶, mak⁶
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): ma̍k
• Min Nan (POJ): be̍h

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: mài
    • Zhuyin: ㄇㄞˋ
    • Wade-Giles: mai⁴
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: may
    • IPA ^(key): /maɪ̯⁵¹/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: maak⁶, mak⁶
    • Yale: maahk, mahk
    • Cantonese Pinyin: maak⁹, mak⁹
    • IPA ^(key): /mɑːk̚²/, /mɐk̚²/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: ma̍k
    • IPA (Siyen, incl. Miaoli): /mak̚⁵/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: be̍h
    • Tâi-lô: be̍h
    • IPA (Taipei): /beʔ⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /beʔ¹²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (麥, reconstructed)
Character (麥), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 明 (4) Final: 麥 Division: II			Openness: Open Tone: Checked (Ø)			Fanqie: 莫獲切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/mɣɛk̚/	/mæk̚/	/mɛk̚/	/mɯæk̚/	/məɨjk̚/	/mæk̚/	/mɐk̚/

Old Chinese pronunciation (麥, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
麥								mài								‹ mɛk ›								/*m-rˤək (dialect: *m-rˤ > *mˤr-)/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
麥					7630					來					職					0					麥					/*mrɯːɡ/

Compounds

• 麥當勞
• 麥田

References

• (Min Nan) Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

麥

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

1. wheat

Readings

• On: ばく (baku)
• Kun: むぎ (mugi)

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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

• 麥酒 (맥주)

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Vietnamese

Han character

麥 (mạch)

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