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.

• 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

• 秆gǎn🔊

  stalks of grain

  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

• 稛kǔn🔊

  full

  13 strokes

• 稞kē🔊

  (wheat)

  13 strokes

• 禀bǐng🔊

  to make a report (to a superior)

  13 strokes

• 稠chóu🔊

  dense

  HSK 7

  13 strokes

• 种zhǒng🔊

  seed

  HSK 3

  14 strokes

• 称chēng🔊

  to weigh

  HSK 2

  14 strokes

• 稲dào🔊

  variant of 稻[dao4]

  14 strokes

• 稳wěn🔊

  settled; steady; stable

  HSK 4

  14 strokes

• 稨biǎn🔊

  see 稨豆[bian3 dou4]

  14 strokes

• 穊jì🔊

  dense

  14 strokes

• 谷gǔ🔊

  grain

  15 strokes

• 稿gǎo🔊

  manuscript

  15 strokes

• 稼jià🔊

  to sow grain

  15 strokes

• 䅵zhuó🔊

  chaff

  15 strokes

• 稷jì🔊

  millet

  15 strokes

• 稹zhěn🔊

  to accumulate

  15 strokes

• 稻dào🔊

  paddy

  15 strokes

• 稽jī🔊

  (bound form) to examine; to check (against records)

  15 strokes

• 穆mù🔊

  solemn

  16 strokes

• 积jī🔊

  to amass; to accumulate; to store up

  HSK 7

  16 strokes

• 穄jì🔊

  (millet)

  16 strokes

• 穈mén🔊

  porridge

  16 strokes

• 穋lù🔊

  late-planted early-ripening grain

  16 strokes

• 稣sū🔊

  archaic variant of 蘇|苏[su1]

  16 strokes

• 颖yǐng🔊

  head of grain

  16 strokes

• 穑sè🔊

  gather in harvest

  16 strokes

• 穞lǚ🔊

  wild grain

  17 strokes