Chinese symbol for “wheat”
麦
mài
Traditional: 麥
wheat; barley; oats; mic (abbr. for 麦克风 (mài kè fēng))
The closest CC-CEDICT match for wheat is 麦 (mài), defined as: wheat; barley; oats; mic (abbr. for 麦克风 (mài kè fēng)).
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “wheat”
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 小麦 (小麥) | xiǎo mài | wheat; measure word: 粒 (lì) |
| 麦子 (麥子) | mài zi | wheat; measure word: 株 (zhū) |
Related words
Other words that share a character with 麦.
| 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 |
See also: Japanese symbol for “wheat”.
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.