麦 (mài) means Wheat (barley - oats). Below are 7 sentences on this site that use it — with pinyin, an English translation and audio. All of them were written by hand; none is machine generated.
Dictionary examples
请把 麦 克风打开。
Qǐng bǎ màikèfēng dǎkāi.
Please switch on the microphone.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 麦克风
北方主要种小 麦 。
Běifāng zhǔyào zhòng xiǎomài.
The north mainly grows wheat.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 小麦
他对着 麦 克风说话。
Tā duì zhe màikèfēng shuō huà.
He spoke into the microphone.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 麦克风
小 麦 今年长得很好。
Xiǎomài jīnnián zhǎng de hěn hǎo.
The wheat has grown well this year.
Dictionary example · HSK 5 · 小麦
平原上适合种小 麦 。
Píngyuán shang shìhé zhòng xiǎomài.
The plain is suitable for growing wheat.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 平原
农民正在地里割 麦 子。
Nóngmín zhèngzài dì lǐ gē màizi.
The farmers are cutting wheat in the fields.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 割
风一吹， 麦 田像波浪一样起伏。
Fēng yì chuī, màitián xiàng bōlàng yíyàng qǐfú.
When the wind blew, the wheat field rose and fell like waves.
Dictionary example · HSK 6 · 波浪
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Words that contain 麦
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Questions about 麦
How is 麦 used in a sentence?
This page shows 7 sentences using 麦 (mài, "Wheat (barley - oats)"), each with pinyin, an English translation and audio. Every one of them was written by hand for this site.
Are these sentences machine generated?
No. They come from the site's own dictionary examples, graded readers, travel phrasebook and grammar library — all written by a person. A word with no sentence gets no page here, rather than a page of invented ones.
Why do some sentences show 麦 inside a longer word?
Because that is where a single character usually lives. Seeing 麦 inside the words it builds is how the character stops being an isolated symbol and starts being something you can read.
Where can I see the full entry for 麦?
The dictionary page for 麦 has its stroke order, its traditional form, every sense the dictionary lists and a character-by-character breakdown. It is linked at the top of this page.
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