Radical 199
Chinese character radical
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::summary Chinese character radical ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| 199 | uni |
| meaning | wheat |
| pny | mài |
| bopo | ㄇㄞˋ |
| wade | mai4 |
| jyutping | mak6, maak6 |
| yale | mak6 |
| onyomi | バク baku |
| kunyomi | むぎ mugi |
| jp | 麦/むぎ mugi |
| 麦繞/ばくにょう baku | |
| hang | 보리 bori |
| hanja | 맥 maek |
| hanviet | mạch |
| :: |
|199|uni=9EA5 |meaning= wheat |pny= mài |bopo= ㄇㄞˋ |wade= mai4 |jyutping= mak6, maak6 |yale= mak6 |cn= |onyomi= バク baku |kunyomi= むぎ mugi |jp= 麦/むぎ mugi 麦繞/ばくにょう baku |hang= 보리 bori |hanja= 맥 maek |hanviet= mạch ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/麦-order.gif" caption="麦}} in Chinese"] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/麦-jorder.gif" caption="麦}} 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.
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
File:麥-oracle.svg|Oracle bone script character File:麥-bronze.svg|Bronze script character File:麥-bigseal.svg|Large seal script character File:麥-seal.svg|Small seal script character
Derived characters
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| Strokes | Characters (麥) | Characters (麦) |
|---|---|---|
| +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
As an independent sinogram 麦 is a Chinese character. It is one of the Kyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school in Japan. It is a second grade kanji.
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