Radical 199
Chinese character radical
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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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Radical 199 (U+2FC6)
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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
Oracle bone script character
Bronze script character
Large seal script character
Small seal script character
Derived characters
Sinogram
As 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]
