Radical 115

禾
禾
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

Strokes	Characters
+0	禾
+2	禿秀私秂秃^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

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