What 麳 means
Enter lai as Mandarin pinyin. An ordinary candidate list may omit this character, so try an expanded dictionary, handwriting recognition, or search under the 麥 radical—the component used to file characters by shape. A Unicode hex input method can accept 9EB3.
What does 麳 mean?
It names wheat; one old dictionary specifies small wheat. An early Chinese character dictionary, 《说文解字》, records 䅘 as a regional Qi word for wheat. Its commentary links 䅘 and 麳 to an older wheat sense of 來: 麳 combines 麥 (wheat) and 來, while 䅘 combines 禾 (grain) and 來.
A later dictionary, 《广雅》, distinguishes 麳 as small wheat from 麰, barley. Agricultural and dictionary lists pair the two grains as 麳麰. In modern Chinese, 來 is the separate character for “come”; its older wheat sense belongs to this historical word family.
A classical and lexicographic wheat term, at home in historical or agricultural writing.
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1Why does 麳 show as a box?
It can be a font gap, not a wrong character. Rare CJK characters may be inserted correctly but display as when the active font lacks the glyph; use a font with broader CJK coverage.
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麳\9EB3lai in a Mandarin pinyin input method. If the character is absent, check an expanded rare-character dictionary.Codes and encoding1 code points
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