HSK 5 · Food

小麦 xiǎomài “wheat” in Chinese

Traditional 小麥

What 小麦 means

  1. wheat

Measure word 粒 lì · 一粒小麦 yí lì xiǎomài

How to say 小麦

  • Pitch chart of the third tone: dips low then rises, 2 to 1 to 4 on the five-level scale小xiǎo3rd tone, dipping
  • Pitch chart of the fourth tone: falls from high to low, 5 to 1 on the five-level scale麦mài4th tone, falling

小麦 in a sentence

  1. 面粉是小麦制成的。

    Miànfěn shì xiǎomài zhìchéng de.

    Flour is made from wheat.

    Sentence #401129 from Tatoeba

  2. 你能辨别小麦和大麦吗？

    Nǐ néng biànbié xiǎomài hé dàmài ma?

    Can you tell wheat from barley?

    Sentence #1785939 from Tatoeba

  3. 面包是用小麦做成的。

    Miànbāo shì yòng xiǎomài zuòchéng de.

    Bread is made from wheat.

    Sentence #778497 from Tatoeba · converted to simplified characters

How 小麦 is built

Each colour is one part of the character. Parts repeat across thousands of characters, so learning them makes new words easier. See all 214 in our radicals chart.

The character 小 (xiǎo) with each of its parts in a different colour
小xiǎosmall
  • 亅hook · jué
  • 八eight · bā

Memory aidThree small strokes, like grains: small.

The character 麦 (mài) with each of its parts in a different colour
麦màiwheat; barley; oats
  • 龶part of the character
  • 夂go · zhǐ

How to write 小麦

小 3 strokes · 麦 7 strokes

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小麦 (xiǎomài) stroke order chart: each stroke of the characters in the order you write them
Stroke order chart for 小麦 (xiǎomài). Red marks the next stroke, so you can copy it onto paper one step at a time.

Words related to 小麦

Words with 小

小xiǎo · small小姐xiǎojiě · miss小学xiǎoxué · elementary school小学生xiǎoxuéshēng · primary school student小朋友xiǎopéngyǒu · child小时xiǎoshí · hour从小cóngxiǎo · from childhood小孩儿xiǎoháir · child小时候xiǎoshíhou · in one’s childhood小心xiǎoxīn · be careful

Words with 麦

麦克风màikèfēng · microphone (loanword)

More words: Food & Dining

桃táo · peach土豆tǔdòu · potato胃口wèikǒu · appetite香肠xiāngcháng · sausage宴会yànhuì · banquet营养yíngyǎng · nutrition油炸yóuzhá · to deep fry玉米yùmǐ · corn

FAQs

小麦 (xiǎomài) means “wheat”. It is an HSK 5 word.
Say it xiǎomài: xiǎo with a 3rd tone, then mài with a 4th tone. Press Listen at the top of this page to hear it, or Slowly to hear each tone clearly.
In Traditional characters, used in Taiwan and Hong Kong, 小麦 is written 小麥. The pronunciation is the same.
Use 粒 (lì). For example, one wheat is 一粒小麦 (yí lì xiǎomài).
Add a Chinese (Simplified) pinyin keyboard to your phone or computer, type xiaomai with no tone marks or spaces, then choose 小麦 from the suggestions. Typing xiaomai into this dictionary’s search box finds it too.
小麦 is an HSK 5 word in the HSK 2.0 word lists.

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Sources: meaning and pinyin checked by a native Mandarin teacher against the official HSK lists. Extra meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR). Character parts and stroke order from Make Me a Hanzi.