Radical 115

禾
114 ⽱ ◄	115	► ⽳ 116
Pinyin :	hé (= grain) 禾木 旁 hémùpáng (= radical grain-tree)
Zhuyin :	ㄏ ㄜ ˊ
Hiragana :	の ぎ nogi
Kanji :	ノ 木 偏 nogihen
Hangul :	벼
Sinocorean :	화
Codepoint :	U + 79BE
Stroke sequence :

Radical 115 with the meaning “ grain , ear ” is one of 23 of the 214 traditional radicals in Chinese writing that are written with five strokes.

With 79 combinations of characters in Mathews' Chinese-English Dictionary, there are many characters that can be found under this radical in the lexicon.

The radical "cereals" takes only in the traditional characters - list of traditional radicals consisting of 214 radicals 115. position. It can be found in a completely different place in modern abbreviation dictionaries. In the New Chinese-German Dictionary from the People's Republic of China, for example, it is in 149th position.

etymology

The seal form of this character clearly shows a stalk of grain with two leaves to the right and left and the ear hanging down at the top.

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  Oracle Bone Script

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use

In the left position in the compound character, the last line (bottom right) becomes a dot line as in 称 (= fit). In this position the radical is usually described as 禾木 旁 (tree component).

As a bearer of meaning, 禾 places its signs in the context of agriculture, for example in 种 (zhong = seed), 秧 (= germ), 稻 (= rice), 香 (xiang = scent), 秋 (qiu = autumn, harvest time), 私(si = private) and 利 (li = advantage; 禾 grain + 刂 knife = cut off grain = advantage).

秦 ( Qin ) is the name of the state from which China emerged (in the area of ​​today's provinces 陕西Shaanxi and West Gansu甘肃), in which a lot of grain was grown, hence daher in the sign 秦 (Qin).

In only a few cases, 禾 acts as a sound carrier, the best known is the conjunction和 (and, with).

Examples

character	Pīnyīn	translation
秀	xiù	elegant
私	sī	Private
秋	qiū	autumn
秘	mì	secret

Character compounds ruled by radical 115

Ears of wheat (rice)

Strokes	character
+ 00	禾
+ 02	禿 秀 私 秂 秃
+ 03	秄 秅 秆 秇 秈 秉 秊
+ 04	秋秌 种 秎 秏 秐 科 秒 秓 秔 秕 秖 秗
+ 05	秘 秙 秚 秛 秜 秝 秞 租 秠 秡 秢 秣 秤 秥 秦 秧 秨 秩 秩 秪 秫 秬 秭 秮 积 称
+ 06	秱 秲 秳 秴 秵 秶 秷 秸 秹 秺 移 秼 秽 秾
+ 07	秿 稀 稁 稂 稃 稄 稅 稆 稇 稈 稉 稊 程 稌 稍 税
+ 08	稏 稐 稑 稒 稓 稔 稕 稖 稗 稘 稙 稚 稛 稜 稝 稞 稟 稠 稡 稢 稣 稤 稥
+ 09	稦 稧 稨 稩 稪 稫 稬 稭 種 稯 稰 稱 稲 稳 穀
+10	稴 稵 稶 稷 稸 稹 稺 稻 稼 稽 稾 稿 穁 穂 穃
+11	穄 穅 穆 穇 穈 穊 穋 穌 積 穎 穏 穐 穑 穒
+12	穉 穓 穔 穕 穖 穗 穘 穙 穚 穛 穜 穝 穞
+13	穟 穠 穡 穢 穣
+14	穤 穥 穦 穧 穨 穩 穪 穫
+15	穬 穭 穮 穯
+16	龝
+17	穰 穳
+18	穱
+19	穲

In the Unicode block Kangxi radicals , the radical 115 is coded under the code point number 12.146 (U + 2F72).

literature

• Edoardo Fazzioli : Painted Words. 214 Chinese characters - from picture to concept . Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-34-7 , p. 199 .
• Cecilia Lindqvist : A world of signs - about the Chinese and their writing . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1990, ISBN 3-426-26482-X , p. 185 .

For detailed references, see List of Traditional Radicals: Literature

Web links

Commons : Radikal 115  - Graphic representations of Radikal 115

• Xiù cai.oai.de (PDF; 1.72 MB) Explanation of Radikal 115 on page 101