麦

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wheat; barley; oats; mic (abbr. for 麥克風|麦克风[mai4 ke4 feng1])

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Formation & memory

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Ideographic compound (会意字)

Simplified form of 麦; grains 來 ready to be harvested 夂

Components 龶夂

wheat · Heisig RSH #1206

grow up + walking legs

Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.

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Word	Pinyin	Meaning
麦克白夫人	Mài kè bái Fū ren	Lady Macbeth
大麦克指数	Dà Mài kè Zhǐ shù	see 巨無霸漢堡包指數\|巨无霸汉堡包指数[Ju4 wu2 ba4 han4 bao3 bao1 Zhi3 shu4]
大麦地	Dà mài dì	place name in Ningxia with rock carving conjectured to be a stage in the development of Ch…
大麦克	Dà Mài kè	Big Mac (McDonald's hamburger) (Tw)
麦尔维尔	Mài ěr wéi ěr	(name) Melville; Herman Melville (1819–1891), US novelist, author of Moby Dick 白鯨\|白鲸[Bai2 …
麦克白	Mài kè bái	Macbeth (name); Macbeth, 1606 tragedy by William Shakespeare 莎士比亞\|莎士比亚
开麦拉	kāi mài lā	(Tw) (loanword) camera
麦克风	mài kè fēng	(loanword) microphone
麦金塔电脑	Mài jīn tǎ diàn nǎo	Macintosh (brand of computers made by Apple); Mac
麦克米兰	Mài kè mǐ lán	McMillan or MacMillan (name); Harold Macmillan (1894-1986), UK conservative politician, pr…
麦德龙	Mài dé lóng	Metro supermarket chain (originally German)
麦德林	Mài dé lín	Medellín, city in Colombia
布格麦	bù gé mài	bulgur (loanword)
麦克德莫特	Mài kè dé mò tè	McDermott (name)
麦克维	mài kè wéi	(Timothy) McVeigh
麦金塔	Mài jīn tǎ	see 麥金塔電腦\|麦金塔电脑[Mai4 jin1 ta3 dian4 nao3]
麦司卡林	mài sī kǎ lín	(chemistry) (loanword) mescaline
麦子	mài zi	wheat; CL:株[zhu1]
同传耳麦	tóng chuán ěr mài	simultaneous interpretation headset
大麦	dà mài	barley

These characters use 麦 as their sound component — compare how they read.

Character	Pinyin	Meaning
麦 sound part	mài	wheat, barley, oats
唛	mài	mark