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麦

麥
mài

Meanings

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mài
  1. 1.wheat; barley; oats
  2. 2.mic (abbr. for 麦克风[mài kè fēng])
Mài
  1. 1.surname Mai

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Wiktionary

  1. 1.to dawdle
  2. 2.the name of the father of Emperor Yao
  3. 3.Original form of 凌 (líng, “to surmount”).
  4. 4.Original form of 陵 (líng, “mound; to encroach; to bully”).

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Etymology

Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): semantic 木 (“tree”) + semantic 人 (“a person”). On bronze inscription, a foot 夂 was added at the bottom of the character. Later, the two components on top were highly compressed and stylized into 圥 (with a variant 𡴆). Its original meaning was perhaps "to climb; to surpass".

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Stroke order

Components

麦龶夂

Components from cjk-decomp · MIT

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