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Kanji Detail for 麦 - "wheat, barley"

麦

  • Meaning

    麦 means "wheat, barley."

    1. Wheat - A grain of the grass family; one of the five cereals.

  • Words using 麦

    • 小麦 こむぎ Listen wheat
    • 小麦粉 こむぎこ Listen wheat flour
    • 大麦 おおむぎ Listen barley (Hordeum vulgare)
    • 蕎麦 そば Listen buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum); soba; Japanese buckwheat noodles
    • 蕎麦屋 そばや Listen soba restaurant

  • Origin of 麦

    The old form 麥 is 來 — itself a pictograph of the wheat plant — over 夂, a foot: wheat, "the grain that came", held in lore to have arrived as a gift from heaven. (來 was borrowed away to mean "come", and wheat kept the foot.)

    How to remember it: The grain that walked 夂 here from heaven — wheat, whose picture 來 also became the word "come".

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

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    • Verified meaning: wheat, barley
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read ばく, まい, むぎ)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 麦

    Given names 麦(むぎ)Listen

    Surnames 麦(ばく)Listen 麦(まい)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    barley; wheat

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    wheat, barley, oats; simplified form of Kangxi radical 199

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Mai

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    wheat, barley, oats

  • Onyomi

    tip

    baku(バク) バク

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    mugi(むぎ) むぎ

  • Strokes

    tip

    7 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    麥 麦 (mugi・mugihen・bakunyo)

  • Related Keywords

    wheat barley grain cereal crop flour harvest bread field agriculture malt bran gluten dough

Sentences including 麦

  • Do you drink barley tea?

  • We grow wheat here.

  • The wheat crop bears a good harvest every year.

  • Put the flour on the shelf.

  • Flour is made into bread.

  • This wheat is made into flour.

  • Where's my straw hat?

  • The wheat is ready for harvest.

  • How much is rye flour?

  • Mix the flour with two eggs.

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