禾

Translingual

Stroke order

Phonosemantic interpretation

Old Chinese Initial /*k-/ lends semantic value Frame. Vowel /*-ua-/ lends semantic value Curving/Round. Final consonant /*-r/ lends semantic value Continuum. Pictogram (象形) of a round head of millet hanging from a stalk → grain; rice. Source: Howell & Morimoto

Han character

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

1. grain still on stalk
2. rice plant

Related characters

• 兼

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

禾 (jyutping wo4, Yale wo4)

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Hakka

Hanzi

禾 (POJ vô, Guangdong wo²; vo² [Meixian, Kwangtung], Hagfa Pinyim vo2, vo4)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

禾

Readings

• Goon: わ (wa)
• Kan’on: か (ka), from くわ
• Kun: いね (ine), のぎ (nogi)

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Korean

Hanja

禾 (hangeul 화, revised hwa, McCune-Reischauer hwa, Yale hwa)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

禾 (pinyin hé (he2), Wade-Giles ho²)

Compounds

• 禾苗
• 禾稻

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Middle Chinese

Han character

禾 (huɑ)

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Vietnamese

Han character

禾 (hòa)