Memory phrase for the character: 麦


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Meaning wheat, barley, oats

Pronunciation

mài

Explanation

At top: growing plant bottom: up turned feet, cross-legged

Mnemonic


 
Let the plants grow, sit down cross-legged and enjoy the wheat.

Radicals

growing plantShows a growing plant with three 三 branches. When a leaf is added, it becomes life .
upturned footupturned foot or sitting crossed-legged - Do not mistake with the: "hand with a stick": /
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 Vocabulary

小麦 xiǎo mài  wheat
麦当娜 Mài dāng nà  Madonna (1958-), US pop singer
麦克阿瑟 Mài kè ā sè  General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), US commander in Pacific during WW2, sacked in 1951 by President Truman for exceeding orders during the Korean war
燕麦 yàn mài  oats
喀麦隆 Kā mài lóng  Cameroon
麦枷 mài jiā  flail; to thresh (using a flail)
麦秸 mài jiē  straw from barley
麦秸 mài jiē  

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