Illustration: At a farm's covered threshing area, a grower sets three freshly cut cereal bundles together on a low wooden bench. One has compact wheat ears, another has barley ears with conspicuously long awns, and the third has loose, branching oat seed heads.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

麦むぎ

mugi

wheat, barley, oats

It names several related grains; context determines which. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 家中いえじゅうが力ちからを合あわせて麦むぎの刈入かりいれをしました。

    The whole family helped harvest the wheat.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 本来国内産ほんらいこくないさんの麦むぎはグルテン量りょうが少すくなく、細ほそく作つくることには不適ふてきである。

    Originally the wheat produced in Japan is not suitable to make the noodle thinner because it does not contain much gluten.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 味あじわいは麦むぎ焼酎しょうちゅうより更さらに軽かるく、癖くせが少すくない。

    It tastes mild and even lighter than barley shochu.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 麦

  • 麦barley; wheatOnバクKunむぎ

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