Stroke order of the simplified form 麦 in ChineseStroke order of the simplified form 麦 in Japanese
Radical 199 or radical wheat (麥部) meaning "wheat" is one of the 6 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 11 strokes.
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.
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]
Fazzioli, Edoardo (1987). Chinese calligraphy : from pictograph to ideogram : the history of 214 essential Chinese/Japanese characters. calligraphy by Rebecca Hon Ko. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN0-89659-774-1.
GF 0011-2009 Table of Indexing Chinese Character Components prescribes 201 principle indexing components and 100 associated indexing components (in brackets) used in Simplified Chinese. Not all associated indexing components are listed above.
