Hai Collection, Lower Volume Radical: Wheat (mài) Kangxi stroke count: 19 Page 1513, Entry 43 Pronounced lai. Guangyun (Dictionary of Sounds and Meanings): Pronounced lai. Jiyun (Collective Rhymes): Pronounced lai. Guangya (Expanded Refinements): Wheat is termed lai; barley is termed mou. Originally written as lai. Book of Odes (Shijing), Zhou Odes: Bestow upon us wheat and barley. Also, Jiyun (Collective Rhymes): Pronounced li. The meaning is the same. Also, pronounced li. Refers to wheat. Sometimes written with the grain radical. In the Qi region, it is called wheat. Also written in a variant form.