穂 (suì): ear of grain (variant of 穗)

Meanings

1 ear of grain (variant of 穗)
2 tassel (variant form, common in Japanese)

Characters

穂

suì

ear of grain (variant of 穗)

Examples

穂是穗字的异体写法。

Suì shì suì zì de yì tǐ xiěfǎ.

穂 is a variant form of the character 穗.

她叫穂子，是日语名字。

Tā jiào Suì zǐ, shì Rìyǔ míngzi.

She is called Suiko — it's a Japanese name.

Tips

usage

穂 is a variant glyph of 穗 (suì, 'ear of grain / tassel'). It's the standard form in Japanese (where it's read 'ho' or 'sui' and used in names like 美穂 Miho or 千穂 Chiho). In modern Mainland Chinese the standard form is 穗 — 穂 mostly turns up in Japanese names and Korean Hanja contexts. 穗 also serves as the abbreviation for Guangzhou (广州).

memory

Both 穗 and 穂 use the 禾 'grain' radical — picture a head of wheat with the seed-cluster on top.

Components

radical

禾 hé

grain; standing cereal plant

Left grain radical — pictograph of a stalk of grain with a heavy seed-head bent over at the top. The semantic anchor for 穂: an ear of grain is the seeded tip of a cereal plant. Indexes this character in the cereal family with 稻 rice, 麦 wheat, 稼 to sow, 穗 ear-of-grain (the standard mainland form).

phonetic

惠 huì

benefit; kindness (phonetic, contracted)

Right side — a contracted 9-stroke variant of 惠 (standalone 12 strokes), the form used in Japanese print conventions. Supplies the phonetic huì → suì via initial shift. 穂 is the Japanese-style variant character of 穗; both spell the same word, with 穂 retaining the older typographic shape used widely in Japanese texts and occasionally in pre-1956 Chinese printing.

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