麦

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See also: 麥
麦 U+9EA6, 麦
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-9EA6
← 麥
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 麧 →
⻨ U+2EE8, ⻨
CJK RADICAL SIMPLIFIED WHEAT
← ⻧
 		CJK Radicals Supplement ⻩ →

Translingual

Stroke order
(Chinese)
Stroke order
(Japan)

Han character

麦 (Kangxi radical 199, 麦+0, 7 strokes, cangjie input 手一水 (QME), composition ⿱龶夂(GJ) or ⿱龶夊(T))

Derived characters

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: page 1512, character 9
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 47718
  • Dae Jaweon: page 2041, character 2
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 7, page 4600, character 2
  • Unihan data for U+9EA6

Chinese

Etymology 1

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 麦 – see 麥 (“wheat; etc.”).
(This character is the simplified and variant form of 麥).
Notes:

Etymology 2

Glyph origin

Corruption of 八 into a horizontal stroke.

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 麦 – see 夌 (“to dawdle; the name of the father of Emperor Yao; etc.”).
(This character is a variant form of 夌).

Japanese

Shinjitai

麦

Kyūjitai

麥

Kanji

麦

(Second grade kyōiku kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 麥)

  1. wheat
  2. barley

Readings

  • Go-on: みゃく (myaku)
  • Kan-on: ばく (baku, Jōyō)
  • Kun: むぎ (mugi, 麦, Jōyō)

Compounds

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
麦
むぎ
Grade: 2
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
麥 (kyūjitai)

From Old Japanese.[1] In turn, theorized to be from Proto-Japonic *monki.

First cited to the Kojiki in 712 CE.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

麦(むぎ) • (mugi) 

  1. (broadly speaking) dry-cultivated cereal grain
    1. wheat
      Synonym: (literally “little mugi”) 小麦 (komugi)
    2. barley
      Synonym: (literally “big mugi”) 大麦 (ōmugi)
    3. rye
      Synonym: (literally “naked mugi”) 裸麦 (hadaka-mugi)
    4. oats
      Synonym: (literally “swallow (bird) mugi”) 燕麦 (enbaku)

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
麦
もぎ
Grade: 2
irregular
Alternative spelling
麥 (kyūjitai)


For pronunciation and definitions of 麦 – see the following entry.
【もぎ】
麦: (dialectal, Yamagata) wheat
(This term, 麦, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN
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