Chinese symbol for “barley”
大麦
dà mài
Traditional: 大麥
barley
The closest CC-CEDICT match for barley is 大麦 (dà mài), defined as: barley.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “barley”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 牟 | móu | barley; to moo |
| 麦 (麥) | mài | wheat; barley; oats; mic (abbr. for 麦克风 (mài kè fēng)) |
| 麰 | móu | barley |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 大麦.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 大学 (大學) | dà xué | university; college; measure word: 所 (suǒ) |
| 大家 | dà jiā | everyone; influential family |
| 大量 | dà liàng | great amount; large quantity |
| 大陆 (大陸) | dà lù | continent; mainland; 块 (kuài) |
| 大会 (大會) | dà huì | general assembly; general meeting |
| 重大 | zhòng dà | great; important |
| 小麦 (小麥) | xiǎo mài | wheat; measure word: 粒 (lì) |
| 麦克 (麥克) | mài kè | (loanword) microphone |
See also: Japanese symbol for “barley”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.