麥

See also: 麦
麥 U+9EA5, 麥
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9EA5
← 麤
[U+9EA4] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 麦 →
[U+9EA6]

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.

Derived characters

  • Index:Chinese radical/麥

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
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *mrɯːɡ) : phonetic 來 (OC *m·rɯːɡ) + semantic 夊 (“foot; to walk slowly”). 來 was the original character for “wheat”. Several possible interpretations:

  • This character originally meant “to come”. Because the simpler 來 was commonly used for this (borrowed) sense, its original meaning (“wheat”) switched with 麥.
  • 夊 represents the ancient concept that wheat came from the heavens.
  • 夊 represents growth of the wheat plant.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • măk - vernacular;
  • mĕk - literary.
Note:
  • be̍h/be̍eh - vernacular;
  • be̍k/bia̍k - literary.
  • 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. Short for 麥克斯韋／麦克斯韦 (Màikèsīwéi).
  4. A surname​.

Compounds

References

Japanese

Shinjitai

 麦

Kyūjitai

 麥

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)
  1. wheat

Compounds

Vietnamese

Han character

麥 (mạch)

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