Radical 199 or radical wheat (麥部) meaning "wheat" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 11 strokes.
| 麥 | ||
|---|---|---|
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| 麥 (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 | |
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In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 131 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.
麦 (7 strokes), the simplified form of 麥, 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 麥 is listed as its associated indexing component. 麦 is also the simplified form used in Japanese.
Evolution
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Oracle bone script character -
Bronze script character -
Large seal script character -
Small seal script character
Derived characters
edit| Strokes | Characters (麥) | Characters (麦) |
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| +0 | 麥 | 麦SC/JP (=麥) |
| +3 | 麧 | |
| +4 | 麨 麩 麪HK (=麵) 麫 (=麵) | 麸SC/麸JP (=麩) |
| +5 | 麬 (=麩) 麭 麮 | |
| +6 | 麯 (=麴) 麰 | |
| +7 | 麱 麲 | |
| +8 | 麳 麴 | 麹SC/麹JP (=麴) |
| +9 | 麵 | 麺SC nonstandard/麺JP (=麵) |
| +11 | 麶 | |
| +18 | 麷 |
Sinogram
editAs an independent sinogram 麦 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
edit- ^ a b "The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo". www.kanshudo.com. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-06.
Literature
edit- Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-89659-774-1.
- Lunde, Ken (Jan 5, 2009). "Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets" (PDF). CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing (Second ed.). Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly Media. ISBN 978-0-596-51447-1.
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