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禾

禾

See also: 夫, 末, 天, 未, and 夭

Translingual

Japanese stroke order
Stroke order

Han character

禾 (radical 115 禾+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 竹木 (HD), four-corner 20904, composition ⿱丿木)

  1. Kangxi radical #115, ⽲ ‎(“grain”).

Related characters

References

  • KangXi: page 848, character 18
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 24906
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1270, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2588, character 1
  • Unihan data for U+79BE

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 禾

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 禾
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (禾) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
科 *kʰoːl, *kʰoːls
萪 *kʰoːl
蝌 *kʰoːl
犐 *kʰoːl
禾 *ɡoːl
和 *ɡoːl, *ɡoːls
咊 *ɡoːl
盉 *ɡoːl, *ɡoːls
龢 *ɡoːl
鉌 *ɡoːl
俰 *ɡoːls

Pictogram (象形) – picture of a plant stalk. The stalk is more recognizable in older form.

Pronunciation

Rime
Character 禾
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 匣 (33)
Final (韻) 戈 (95)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Closed
Division (等) I
Fanqie 戸戈切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /ɦuɑ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /ɦuɑ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /ɣuɑ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /ɦwa/
Li
Rong		 /ɣuɑ/
Wang
Li		 /ɣuɑ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /ɣuɑ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 huó
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 禾
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 hé
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ hwa ›
Old
Chinese		 /*[ɢ]ˤoj/
English growing grain

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 禾
Reading # 1/1
No. 4931
Phonetic
component		 禾
Rime
group		 歌
Rime
subdivision		 3
Corresponding
MC rime		 和
Old
Chinese		 /*ɡoːl/

Definitions

禾

  1. grain; cereal
  2. rice plant

Compounds

  • 一禾九穗
  • 嘉禾
  • 拔禾
  • 故宮禾黍／故宫禾黍
  • 柴禾 (cháihé)
  • 禾倈
  • 禾場／禾场
  • 禾旦
  • 禾本科
  • 禾槁
  • 禾稻 (hédào)
  • 禾稼
  • 禾絹／禾绢
  • 禾苗 (hémiáo)
  • 禾菽
  • 禾蟲／禾虫
  • 禾黍
  • 黃禾／黄禾

Japanese

Kanji

禾

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

  1. rice plant

Readings

Korean

Hanja

禾 • ‎(hwa) (hangeul 화)

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Vietnamese

Han character

禾 (hoà)

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