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Radical 199 or radical wheat () meaning "wheat" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 11 stroke (CJK character), strokes.

In the ''Kangxi Dictionary'', there are 131 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this Radical (Chinese characters), radical.

(7 strokes), the simplified form of , is the 149th indexing component in the ''Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components'' predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese characters, Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China, while the traditional form is listed as its associated indexing component. is also the simplified form used in Japanese.

Evolution

File:麥-oracle.svg, Oracle bone script character
File:麥-bronze.svg, Chinese bronze inscriptions, Bronze script character
File:麥-bigseal.svg, Large seal script character
File:麥-seal.svg, Small seal script character

Derived characters

Sinogram

As an independent sinogram 麦 is a 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.

References

Literature

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External links

Unihan Database - U+9EA5

{{Simplified Chinese radicals

Kanji
Kyōiku kanji
Kangxi radicals, 199
Simplified Chinese radicals, 149