Radical 115

For the eleven stroke radical wheat 麥, see Radical 199. For the twelve stroke radical millet 黍, see Radical 202.

禾
Radical 115 (U+2F72)
禾 (U+79BE) "grain"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	hé
Bopomofo:	ㄏㄜˊ
Gwoyeu Romatzyh:	her
Wade–Giles:	ho2
Cantonese Yale:	wòh
Jyutping:	wo4
Japanese Kana:	カ ka (on'yomi) いね ine (kun'yomi)
Sino-Korean:	화 hwa
Names
Chinese name(s):	禾字旁 hézìpáng
Japanese name(s):	禾/いね ine (Left) 禾偏/いねへん inehen (Informal) ノ木/のぎ nogi (Left, informal) ノ偏/のぎへん nogihen
Hangul:	벼 byeo
Stroke order animation

Radical 115 or radical grain (禾部) meaning "grain" is one of the 23 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 5 strokes.

In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 431 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical.

禾 is also the 111th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted by Simplified Chinese dictionaries published in mainland China.

Evolution

Similar to 木 and 來; unrelated to 釆.

• 
  Oracle bone script character
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  Bronze script character
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  Large seal script character
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  Small seal script character

Derived characters

Strokes	Characters
+0	禾
+2	禿 秀 私 利 秂 秃SC (=禿)
+3	秄 秅 秆SC (=稈) 秇 秈 秉 秊 (=年 -> 干)
+4	秋 (also SC form of 鞦 -> 革) 秌 (=秋) 种 (also SC form of 種) 秎 秏 (=耗 -> 耒) 秐 科 秒 (=藐 -> 艸) 秓 秔 (=粳 -> 米) 秕 秖 秗
+5	秘 秙 秚 秛 秜 秝 秞 租 秠 秡 秢 秣 秤 秥 秦 秧 秨 秩 秪 秫 秬 秭 秮 积SC (=積) 称SC/称JP (=稱)
+6	秱 秲 秳 秴 秵 秶 秷 秸 秹 秺 移 秼 秽SC (=穢) 秾SC (=穠) 稆SC (=穭)
+7	秿 稀 稁 稂 稃 稄 稅 稇 稈 稉 (=粳 -> 米) 稊 程 稌 稍 税SC/JP (=稅)
+8	稏 稐 稑 稒 稓 稔 稕 稖 (=䎧 -> 耒) 稗 稘 (=萁 -> 艸) 稙 稚 稛 稜 稝 稞 稟 稠 稡 稢 稣SC (=穌) 稤 稥
+9	稦 稧 稨 稩 稪 稫 稬 (=糯 -> 米) 稭 (=秸) 種 稯 稰 稱 稲JP (=稻) 稳SC (=穩) 穊
+10	稴 稵 稶 稷 稸 (=蓄 -> 艸) 稹 稺 (=稚) 稻 稼 稽 稾 (=稿) 稿 穀 穁 穂JP (=穗) 穃
+11	穄 穅 (=糠 -> 米) 穆 穇 穈 穋 穌 積 穎 穏JP (=穩) 穐 (=秋) 穑SC (=穡) 穒
+12	穉 (=稚) 穓 穔 穕 穖 穗 穘 穙 穚 穛 穜 (=種) 穝 穞SC (=穭)
+13	穟 穠 穡 穢 穣JP (=穰)
+14	穤 (=糯 -> 米) 穥 穦 穧 穨 (=頹 -> 頁) 穩 穪 (=稱 苾 -> 艸) 穫
+15	穬 穭 穮 穯
+17	穰 穳
+18	穱
+19	穲

Literature

• 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.

External links

• Unihan Database - U+79BE