Definition
禾 is a bound morpheme (b.f.) that refers to standing grain, particularly rice. It rarely appears alone in modern Chinese — you will most often see it as a component in botanical or agricultural terms like 禾苗 (seedling of cereal crops), 禾本科 (Gramineae, the grass family), and 水稻 (paddy rice). Think of it as a formal, classical root rather than a free-standing word.
b.f.
(bound form) standing grainespecially ricecereal crops
Examples
- ，。Chūntiān dào le, tián lǐ de hémiáo zhǎng de hěn hǎo.Spring has come, and the grain seedlings in the fields are growing well.
- ，禾。Zhíwùxué kè shàng, wǒmen xuéxí le héběnkē de tèzhēng.In botany class, we studied the characteristics of the grass family (Gramineae).
- ，。Zài gǔdài, hémiáo shì zhǔyào de liángshí zuòwù zhī yī.In ancient times, grain seedlings were one of the main food crops.
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