禾

§Translingual

Japanese stroke order

Stroke order

§Etymology

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

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

§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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§Chinese

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simp. and trad.		禾

§Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): hé (he²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄏㄜˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): wo⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): vô
• Min Nan (POJ): hô

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: hé
    • Zhuyin: ㄏㄜˊ
    • Wade-Giles: ho²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: her
    • IPA ^(key): /xɤ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: wo⁴
    • Yale: wòh
    • Cantonese Pinyin: wo⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /wɔː²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: vô
    • IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /vo²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hô
    • Tâi-lô: hô
    • IPA (Taipei): /hə²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /hə¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (禾, reconstructed)
Character (禾), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 匣 (33) Final: 戈 Division: I			Openness: Closed Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 戸戈切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/ɦuɑ/	/ɣuɑ/	/ɣuɑ/	/ɦuɑ/	/ɦwa/	/ɣuɑ/	/ɣuɑ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (禾, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
禾								hé								‹ hwa ›								/*[ɢ]ˤoj/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
禾					4931					禾					歌					3					和					/*ɡoːl/

§Noun

禾

1. grain, cereal

§Compounds

• 禾苗
• 禾稻

§References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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§Japanese

§Kanji

禾

(“Jinmeiyō” kanji used for names)

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

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§Vietnamese

§Han character

禾 (hòa)

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