Meaning & readings
barley, wheat
On’yomi バク
Kun’yomi むぎ
Origin
This character pictures a grain plant, most likely wheat or barley. The top component suggests the head of grain with its clustered seeds, while the bottom component represents the stalk or root structure of the plant. Together, these two parts create a simple visual representation of the whole grain plant standing in a field, which is why the character came to mean barley and wheat.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Components
- 龶
- 夂
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 7
- Kangxi radical
- 199
- Grade
- Grade 2 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #1615 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+09EA6