Chinese symbol for “mcveigh”

麦克维

mài kè wéi

Traditional: 麥克維

(Timothy) McVeigh

The closest CC-CEDICT match for mcveigh is 麦克维 (mài kè wéi), defined as: (Timothy) McVeigh.

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Characters and stroke order

麦 mài

wheat, barley, oats

radical 199 ⿆ · 7 strokes

克 kè

to subdue, to restrain, to overcome; used in transliterations

radical 10 ⼉ · 7 strokes

维 wéi

to preserve, to maintain, to hold together

radical 120 ⽷ · 11 strokes

Traditional forms

Related words

Other words that share a character with 麦克维.

Word	Pinyin	Meaning
小麦 (小麥)	xiǎo mài	wheat; measure word: 粒 (lì)
麦克 (麥克)	mài kè	(loanword) microphone
麦克风 (麥克風)	mài kè fēng	(loanword) microphone
大麦 (大麥)	dà mài	barley
麦子 (麥子)	mài zi	wheat; measure word: 株 (zhū)
燕麦 (燕麥)	yàn mài	oats
坦克	tǎn kè	(loanword) tank (military vehicle); (derog.) (slang) overweight woman
马克 (馬克)	mǎ kè	mark (monetary unit)
维护 (維護)	wéi hù	to defend; to safeguard

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.