粤

Top indexes under the rice radical, with 米 visible inside an enclosing frame topped by a short cap. The frame and cap are graphic residue of traditional 粵, historically fused into a unit too tight to split - the 10 strokes absorb both frame and inner 米. 粤 names Guangdong and Cantonese culture by convention, not by grain-meaning.

Bottom 丂, an archaic graph picturing breath rising and bending around an obstruction. Supplies the phonetic frame in the traditional 粵 (yuè), preserved unchanged in the simplification. Same 丂 base appears as the phonetic skeleton in 考, 朽, 巧 and other characters in the kǎo / qiǎo sound family - here drifting to yuè through long historical sound change.