Jisho

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7 strokes
Radical:
wheat
Parts:
Variants:
barley, wheat
Kun:
むぎ
On:
バク
Jōyō kanji, taught in grade 2
JLPT level N2
1615 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 麦芽 【バクガ】 malt
  • 麦価 【バクカ】 price of wheat
  • 精麦 【セイバク】 polished barley or wheat
  • 米麦 【ベイバク】 rice and barley, corn

Kun reading compounds

  • 麦 【むぎ】 wheat, barley, oat (oats)
  • 麦茶 【むぎちゃ】 barley tea
  • はだか麦 【はだかむぎ】 naked barley (Hordeum vulgare var. nudum)
  • 毒麦 【どくむぎ】 darnel (Lolium temulentum)

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
mai4
Korean:
maeg

Spanish

  • cebada
  • trigo

Portuguese

  • cevada
  • trigo

French

  • orge
  • blé
128 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese (Florence Sakade)
213 A Guide To Reading and Writing Japanese 3rd edition (Henshall, Seeley and De Groot)
194 A Guide To Remembering Japanese Characters (Kenneth G. Henshall)
1411 A New Dictionary of Kanji Usage
5385 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
816 Essential Kanji (P.G. O’Neill)
1020 Japanese Kanji Flashcards (Max Hodges and Tomoko Okazaki)
456 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
270 Kanji and Kana (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
270 Kanji and Kana, 2nd Edition (Spahn and Hadamitzky)
637 Kanji in Context (Nishiguchi and Kono)
400 Kodansha Compact Kanji Guide
3061 Kodansha Kanji Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
1559 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
2133 Kodansha Kanji Learner’s Dictionary, 2nd Edition (Jack Halpern)
1547 Les Kanjis dans la tete (Yves Maniette)
47718 Morohashi
2408 New Japanese English Character Dictionary (Jack Halpern)
7030 New Nelson (John Haig)
1533 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
1653 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
152 Tuttle Kanji Cards (Alexander Kask)
1467 2001 Kanji
4i4.2 The Kanji Dictionary
2-4-3 SKIP code
5024.7 Four corner code
1-39-94 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9ea6 Unicode hex code

15 strokes
Radical:
wheat
Parts:
Variants:

Speed

Stroke order

On reading compounds

  • 麹菌 【コウジキン】 koji mold (Aspergillus oryzae)
  • 麹塵 【キクジン】 yellow-green tinged with grey, emperor's informal robes
  • 製麹 【セイキク】 koji production

Kun reading compounds

  • 麹 【こうじ】 kōji, malted rice, malt, malt-like material from growing mold on rice, barley, beans, etc. (used as a starter to make sake, miso, soy sauce, etc.)
  • 麹黴 【こうじかび】 koji mold (Aspergillus oryzae)
  • 塩麹 【しおこうじ】 salted kōji (traditional condiment)
  • 麦麹 【むぎこうじ】 barley kōji

Readings

Mandarin Chinese (pinyin):
qu1
Korean:
gug

Spanish

Portuguese

French

5388 Classic Nelson (Andrew Nelson)
2858 Japanese Names (P.G. O’Neill)
47818X Morohashi
7036 New Nelson (John Haig)
2753 Remembering The Kanji (James Heisig)
2778 Remembering The Kanji, 6th edition (James Heisig)
6b13.1 The Kanji Dictionary
3-7-8 SKIP code
3-11-8 SKIP code
4740.2 Four corner code
4724.2 Four corner code
1-25-77 JIS X 0208-1997 kuten code
9eb9 Unicode hex code