also: エンばく · エンバク
Refers to the cereal plant or its grains. Used in food, feed, and agricultural contexts.
I eat oatmeal for breakfast.
They grow oats in this field.
Standard kanji spelling for oats.
Katakana spelling; common in botanical or agricultural contexts.
Mixed kanji-kana spelling; common in everyday writing.
Mixed katakana-kanji spelling; sometimes used for emphasis or in technical contexts.
The kanji 燕 (swallow, as in the bird) and 麦 (wheat/barley) combine to mean 'swallow wheat', possibly from the resemblance of the oat grains to a swallow's tail or from an old Chinese name. The reading えんばく is the on'yomi of the kanji.