Radical 199 (U+2FC6)
(U+9EA5) "wheat"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:mài
Bopomofo:ㄇㄞˋ
Wade–Giles:mai4
Cantonese Yale:mak6
Jyutping:mak6, maak6
Japanese Kana:バク baku (on'yomi)
むぎ mugi (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:맥 maek
Hán-Việt:mạch
Names
Japanese name(s):麦/むぎ mugi
麦繞/ばくにょう baku
Hangul:보리 bori
Stroke order animation
Stroke order of the simplified form in Chinese
Stroke order of the simplified form in Japanese

Radical 199 or radical wheat (麥部) meaning "wheat" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 11 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 131 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

(7 strokes), the simplified form of , is the 149th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while the traditional form is listed as its associated indexing component. is also the simplified form used in Japanese.

Evolution

Derived characters

StrokesCharacters (麥)Characters (麦)
+0 SC/JP (=麥)
+3
+4 HK (=麵) (=麵) SC/JP (=麩)
+5 (=麩)
+6 (=麴)
+7
+8 SC/JP (=麴)
+9 SC nonstandard/JP (=麵)
+11
+18

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram 麦 is a is a Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan.[1] It is a second grade kanji[1].

References

  1. 1 2 "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.

Literature

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