Radical 199

For the surname, see Mai (Chinese surname).

For the five stroke grain radical, see Radical 115. For the twelve stroke millet radical, see Radical 202.

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

麥
← 198 Radical 199 (U+2FC6) 200 →
麥 (U+9EA5) "wheat"
Pronunciations
Pinyin:	mài
Bopomofo:	ㄇㄞˋ
Wade–Giles:	mai4
Cantonese Yale:	mak6
Jyutping:	mak6, maak6
Japanese Kana:	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

Stroke order of the simplified form 麦 in Chinese

Stroke order of the simplified form 麦 in Japanese

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.

Evolution

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

Derived characters

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

Further information: 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.^[1] It is a second grade kanji.^[1]