| 麥 | ||||
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| 麥 (U+9EA5) "wheat" | ||||
| Pronunciations | ||||
| Pinyin: | mài | |||
| Bopomofo: | ㄇㄞˋ | |||
| Wade–Giles: | mai4 | |||
| Cantonese Yale: | mak6 | |||
| Jyutping: | mak6, maak6 | |||
| JapaneseKana: | バク baku (on'yomi) むぎ mugi (kun'yomi) | |||
| Sino-Korean: | 맥 maek | |||
| Hán-Việt: | mạch | |||
| Names | ||||
| Japanese name(s): | 麦/むぎ mugi 麦繞/ばくにょう baku | |||
| Hangul: | 보리 bori | |||
| Stroke order animation | ||||


Radical 199 orradical wheat (麥部) meaning"wheat" is one of the 6Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 11strokes.
In theKangxi Dictionary, there are 131 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under thisradical.
麦 (7 strokes), the simplified form of麥, is the 149th indexing component in theTable of Indexing Chinese Character Components predominantly adopted bySimplified Chinese dictionaries published inmainland China, while the traditional form麥 is listed as its associated indexing component.麦 is also the simplified form used in Japanese.
| 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 |
As an independent sinogram 麦 is aChinese character. It is one of theKyōiku kanji or Kanji taught in elementary school inJapan.[1] It is a second grade kanji.[1]