麦 麥
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Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.
How it used to be written
These are the forms of 麥, the traditional character: 麦 is a twentieth-century simplification, found in no ancient corpus.
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Oracle bone script 商 -
Clerical script 東漢 - See all 10 forms
Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).
Examples
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刚才我的麦克风没起作用，不知道为什麽。
For some reason the microphone didn't work earlier.
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在家里，麦克的工作就是擦窗户。
When Michael is at home, his work is to clean the windows.
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在麦当劳吃早饭怎么样？
How's the breakfast at McDonald's?
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我叫他麦克。
I call him Mike.
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莎士比亚的麦克白是一部悲剧。
Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is a tragedy.
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面粉是小麦制成的。
Flour is made from wheat.
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麦克，你听到了没？
Did you hear that, Mike?
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麦克和他妹妹会说法语，但不会说日语。
Mike and his sister can speak French, but they can't speak Japanese.