麥
màiMài

wheat

麦 (麥) mài frequency
wheat noun
general term for cereal crops such as wheat, barley, and oats

这种面粉是用优质麦磨成的。

zhè zhǒng miàn​fěn shì yòng yōu​zhì mài mò chéng de.

This flour is ground from high-quality wheat.

mic noun
abbreviation for microphone (麦克风 mài​kè​fēng)

他在KTV里抢着拿麦唱歌。

tā zàiKTV lǐ qiǎng zhe ná mài chàng​gē.

He grabbed the mic to sing in the KTV.

麦 (麥) Mài
Mai proper name
surname Mai

麦先生在香港出生。

Mài xiān​sheng zài Xiāng​gǎng chū​shēng.

Mr. Mak was born in Hong Kong.

Frequency
Character
Written text
1,171st most common 120.3 per million
Movie subtitles
788th most common 160.1 per million appears in 26% of films
Word
Movie subtitles
31.6 per million appears in 7% of films
Written text
30.2 per million

Details
Simplified
麦
Strokes
11
Unicode
U+9EA5

Sources
Definitions
CC-CEDICT
Frequency data
MTSU Chinese text computingSUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)