麥子
See also: 麦子
Chinese
[edit]| wheat; barley; oats | child; son; (noun suffix) child; son; (noun suffix); small thing; seed; egg; 1st earthly branch; 11 p.m.–1 a.m., midnight | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| trad. (麥子) | 麥 | 子 | |
| simp. (麦子) | 麦 | 子 | |
Pronunciation
[edit]- Mandarin
- (Standard)
- (Chengdu, Sichuanese Pinyin): me2 zi3
- Cantonese (Jyutping): mak6 zi2
- Jin (Wiktionary): mieh4 zeh
- Xiang (Hengyang, Wiktionary): me6 zr
- Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Hanyu Pinyin:
- Zhuyin: ㄇㄞˋ ˙ㄗ
- Tongyong Pinyin: màizi̊h
- Wade–Giles: mai4-tzŭ5
- Yale: mài-dz
- Gwoyeu Romatzyh: may.tzy
- Palladius: майцзы (majczy)
- Sinological IPA (key): /maɪ̯⁵¹ d͡z̥z̩¹/
- (Chengdu)
- Sichuanese Pinyin: me2 zi3
- Scuanxua Ladinxua Xin Wenz: mez
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɛ²¹ t͡sz̩⁵³/
- (Standard Chinese)+
- Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jyutping: mak6 zi2
- Yale: mahk jí
- Cantonese Pinyin: mak9 dzi2
- Guangdong Romanization: meg6 ji2
- Sinological IPA (key): /mɐk̚² t͡siː³⁵/
- Homophones:
麥子 / 麦子
墨子
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
- Jin
- (Taiyuan)+
- Wiktionary: mieh4 zeh
- Sinological IPA (old-style): /miəʔ² t͡səʔ³/
- (Taiyuan)+
- Xiang
- (Hengyang)
- Wiktionary: me6 zr
- Sinological IPA (key): /me²² t͡sz̩³/
- (Hengyang)
Noun
[edit]麥子
- any cereal crop, but often specifically wheat (Classifier: 株 m)
- grain of wheat; kernel of wheat (Classifier: 粒 m)
- 我實實在在地告訴你們，一粒麥子不落在地裏死了，仍舊是一粒；若是死了，就結出許多子粒來。 [MSC, trad.]
- From: 新標點和合本 (Chinese Union Version with New Punctuation), 約翰福音 (John) 12:24
- Wǒ shíshízàizài de gàosu nǐmen, yī lì màizi bù luò zài dìli sǐ le, réngjiù shì yī lì; ruòshì sǐ le, jiù jié chū xǔduō zǐlì lái. [Pinyin]
- Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone; but if it die, it beareth much fruit.
我实实在在地告诉你们，一粒麦子不落在地里死了，仍旧是一粒；若是死了，就结出许多子粒来。 [MSC, simp.]
Synonyms
[edit]- (wheat):
Dialectal synonyms of 麥子 (“wheat”) [map]
Descendants
[edit]- → Manchu: ᠮᠠᡳᠰᡝ (maise)
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