Radical 199

{{Short description|Chinese character radical}}

{{for|the surname|Mai (Chinese surname)}}

{{for-multi|the five stroke grain radical|Radical 115|the twelve stroke millet radical|Radical 202}}

{{Infobox Kangxi radical

|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

}}

File:麦-order.gif

File:麦-jorder.gif

Radical 199 or radical wheat ({{Lang|zh-Hant|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.

{{Lang|zh-Hans|麦}} (7 strokes), the simplified form of {{Lang|zh-Hans|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 {{Lang|zh-Hans|麥}} is listed as its associated indexing component. {{Lang|ja|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

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hant" | {{Linktext|麥}}

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hans" | {{Linktext|麦}}SC/JP (=麥)

+3

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hant" | {{Linktext|麧}}

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hans" |

+4

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hant" | {{Linktext|麨}} {{Linktext|麩}} {{Linktext|麪}}HK (=麵) {{Linktext|麫}} (=麵)

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hans" | {{Linktext|麸}}SC/{{Linktext|麸|lang=ja}}JP (=麩)

+5

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hant" | {{Linktext|麬}} (=麩) {{Linktext|麭}} {{Linktext|麮}}

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hans" |

+6

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hant" | {{Linktext|麯}} (=麴) {{Linktext|麰}}

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hans" |

+7

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hant" | {{Linktext|麱}} {{Linktext|麲}}

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hans" |

+8

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hant" | {{Linktext|麳}} {{Linktext|麴}}

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hans" | {{Linktext|麹}}SC/{{Linktext|麹|lang=ja}}JP (=麴)

+9

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hant" | {{Linktext|麵}}

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hans" | {{Linktext|麺}}SC nonstandard/{{Linktext|麺|lang=ja}}JP (=麵)

+11

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hant" | {{Linktext|麶}}

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hans" |

+18

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hant" | {{Linktext|麷}}

| style="font-size: large;" lang="zh-Hans" |

{{Further|wikt:Appendix:Chinese radical/麥}}

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.{{Cite web |title=The Kyoiku Kanji (教育漢字) - Kanshudo |url=https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324010221/https://www.kanshudo.com/collections/kyoiku_kanji |archive-date=March 24, 2022 |access-date=2023-05-06 |website=www.kanshudo.com}} It is a second grade kanji.

References

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Literature

  • {{cite book|last= Fazzioli |first= Edoardo |others= calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko |title= Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters |year= 1987 |publisher= Abbeville Press |location= New York |isbn= 0-89659-774-1 }}
  • {{cite book|last= Lunde |first= Ken |title= CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean & Vietnamese Computing |edition= Second |date= Jan 5, 2009 |publisher= O'Reilly Media |location= Sebastopol, Calif. |isbn= 978-0-596-51447-1 |chapter= Appendix J: Japanese Character Sets |chapter-url= http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596514471/cjkvip2e-appJ.pdf }}