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小麦

xiǎo mài

Old HSK 5 HSK 3.0 level 6 2-character word Traditional 小麥 Measure word 粒

小麦 (xiǎo mài) means "wheat". It is an HSK 3.0 level 6 word, and was HSK 5 in the old six-level list.

What 小麦 means

1. wheat

The characters in 小麦

• 小xiǎosmall; tiny; few
• 麦màiwheat; barley; oats; mic (abbr. for 麦克风

Example sentences

• 面粉是小麦制成的。
  Flour is made from wheat.
• 我的孩子正在割小麦。
  Wǒ de háizi zhèngzài gē xiǎomài.
  My children are threshing wheat.
• 面包是用小麦做成的。
  Miànbāo shì yòng xiǎomài zuò chéng de.
  Bread is made from wheat.
• 你能辨别小麦和大麦吗？
  Nǐ néng biànbié xiǎomài hé dàmài ma?
  Can you tell wheat from barley?
• 圣诞节时，人们会吃烤鹅、红甘蓝和小麦面包。
  At Christmas, one eats roast goose, red cabbage, and wheat buns.
• 极目远望，除了一大片小麦田以外，就什么也看不见了。
  Jímùyuǎnwàng, chúle yī dàpiàn xiǎomài tián yǐwài, jiù shénme yě kànbujiàn le.
  As far as the eye could see, nothing could be seen except cornfields.

Words starting with 小麦

• 小麦胚芽xiǎo mài pēi yáwheat germ

Words containing 小麦

• 斯佩耳特小麦sī pèi ěr tè xiǎo màispelt (Triticum spelta) (loanword)
• 浮小麦fú xiǎo màiunripe wheat grain (used in TCM)

Where 小麦 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Nature, Plants & Agriculture (HSK 5), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 5 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read xiǎo mài correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.