Radical 199
Chinese character radical
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.
01Evolution
Phono-semantic compound phonetic 來 (OC *m·rɯːɡ) + semantic 夊 ("footprint pointing down; to walk slowly");
來
來 (Simplified Chinese & shinjitai: 来) was the original character for 麥; similar to 木 and 禾 but unrelated to 米 and 釆.
02Derived characters
03Sinogram
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.
04Literature
- 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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- 麦-jorder.gif by See user in the "File history" section., CC BY 3.0
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