grain

Origin & mnemonic

This radical represents a stylized depiction of grain or rice plants, derived from ancient pictographic forms. It originates from oracle-bone script and evolved through historical writing systems to denote food crops and cereal grains.

Mnemonic: Picture a simple grain stalk with a stem and grain clusters arranged above—that is the shape of this radical.

• 禾hé🔊

  (bound form) grain plant; cereal crop

  5 strokes

• 秀xiù🔊

  (bound form) refined; elegant; graceful; beautiful

  7 strokes

• 私sī🔊

  personal

  7 strokes

• 秃tū🔊

  bald (lacking hair or feathers)

  HSK 7

  7 strokes

• 秆gǎn🔊

  stalks of grain

  8 strokes

• 籼xiān🔊

  long-grained rice

  8 strokes

• 秉bǐng🔊

  to grasp

  8 strokes

• 秒miǎo🔊

  second (unit of time)

  HSK 5

  9 strokes

• 种zhǒng🔊

  seed

  HSK 3

  9 strokes

• 科kē🔊

  branch of study

  HSK 2

  9 strokes

• 秋qiū🔊

  used in 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]

  9 strokes

• 秏hào🔊

  variant of 耗[hao4]

  9 strokes

• 秕bǐ🔊

  grain not fully grown

  9 strokes

• 秬jù🔊

  black millet

  9 strokes

• 秭zǐ🔊

  billion

  9 strokes

• 称chēng🔊

  to weigh

  HSK 2

  10 strokes

• 租zū🔊

  to hire

  HSK 2

  10 strokes

• 秤chèng🔊

  steelyard balance; Roman balance

  HSK 7

  10 strokes

• 秦Qín🔊

  surname Qin

  10 strokes

• 积jī🔊

  to amass; to accumulate; to store up

  HSK 7

  10 strokes

• 秘mì🔊

  variant of 秘[mi4]

  10 strokes

• 秚bàn🔊

  old variant of 拌[ban4]

  10 strokes

• 秜ní🔊

  self-sown rice

  10 strokes

• 秠pī🔊

  (millet)

  10 strokes

• 秣mò🔊

  feed a horse with grain

  10 strokes

• 秧yāng🔊

  sapling; seedling; sprout; (esp.) rice seedling

  10 strokes

• 秩zhì🔊

  (literary) salary according to rank

  10 strokes

• 秫shú🔊

  broomcorn millet (Panicum spp.)

  10 strokes

• 移yí🔊

  to move

  HSK 4

  11 strokes

• 秸jiē🔊

  grain stalks left after threshing

  11 strokes

• 秷zhí🔊

  sound of reaping

  11 strokes

• 秽huì🔊

  (bound form) dirty; filthy

  11 strokes

• 秾nóng🔊

  lush flora

  11 strokes

• 稆lǚ🔊

  variant of 穭|穞[lu:3]

  11 strokes

• 稍shāo🔊

  somewhat

  HSK 5

  12 strokes

• 程chéng🔊

  rule

  12 strokes

• 税shuì🔊

  taxes

  HSK 6

  12 strokes

• 稀xī🔊

  sparse; scattered

  HSK 7

  12 strokes

• 稂láng🔊

  grass

  12 strokes

• 稃fū🔊

  husk

  12 strokes

• 稊tí🔊

  grass

  12 strokes

• 稌tú🔊

  sticky rice

  12 strokes

• 䅟shān🔊

  panicum frumentaceum

  13 strokes

• 稑lù🔊

  late-planted early-ripening grain

  13 strokes

• 稔rěn🔊

  (literary) ripe grain; ripe; harvest; year

  13 strokes

• 稗bài🔊

  barnyard millet (Echinochloa crus-galli)

  13 strokes

• 稙zhí🔊

  early-planted crop

  13 strokes

• 稚zhì🔊

  infantile

  13 strokes