The pronunciation of Mai [mài]
Mai, pinyin: mài, is a general standard first-level Chinese character, a pictophonetic character and a knowing character. Oracle glyphs. Yeng, Congguan, is the differentiation character of the character Lai. The original meaning refers to arrival, but the later meaning of arrival is expressed by Ben Dangmai's words.
Wheat is an annual or biennial herbaceous plant, including wheat, barley, oats, rye, etc. The seeds are mainly used for grain or concentrated feed, wine making, and making sugar syrup. The stalks can be used for weaving or making paper. Mai is also one of the radicals of Chinese characters.
Phonetic and ideographic characters. The inscription on oracle bones has always (coming, i.e. wheat) from Guan (feet facing down), which means coming. The ancients believed that wheat was a gift from God. There is also a saying that the original meaning of wheat is to come, and later this meaning was borrowed from "come". It is the differentiated word of "Lai". "Lai" is originally the pictographic character for wheat. In the oracle bone inscriptions of the Shang Dynasty, most of the characters for wheat have always been from the word "Guan".
But a few follow the grain from the grain, which is an isomerism of wheat. The bronze inscriptions of the Western Zhou Dynasty followed Mai Congguan, but there were changes. As the word for differentiation. The seal script was standardized. After the official change, the regular script was written as Mai, and now it is simplified to Mai. The original meanings of wheat and lai are similar. "Shuowen": "Wheat, Manggu." "Poetry·阘风·zaichi": "Pengpeng Qiwheat." "Poetry·鄄风·mulberry": "Yuan is picking wheat, and mo is in the north. ”?
Explanation from ancient books
Shuowen Jiezi
Mangou has thick stalks in autumn, so it is called wheat. Wheat, gold. He was born as the King of Gold and died as the King of Fire. Ever, there is a spike; from Kui. All the genus of wheat are derived from wheat. Mo Huoqie
〖Note〗Chen Xuan and others said: Wei means enough. Zhou Shou Ruimai came, and Ru Xing came. Therefore, Cong Wei.