穂

穂 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹木十田心 (HDJWP), four-corner 2593₇, composition ⿰禾恵)

• 穗 (Orthodox traditional form)

• Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 858, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25236
• Dae Jaweon: page 1284, character 9
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2622, character 3
• Unihan data for U+7A42

Found in the historical Longkan Shoujian 《龍龕手鑑》 dictionary compiled in 997 AD.

• Dictionary of Chinese Character Variants (教育部異體字字典), A02948-001#22

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 穗)

1. ear (of grain)
2. head (of grain)
3. crest (of a wave)

• Go-on: ずい (zui)^{←ずゐ (zuwi, historical)}
• Kan-on: すい (sui, Jōyō)^{←すゐ (suwi, historical)}
• Kun: ほ (ho, 穂, Jōyō)
• Nanori: お (o)、ひいずる (hiizuru)、ひで (hide)、ひな (hina)、みのる (minoru)

• As in historical on-readings ending in -ゐ, such as "つゐ", "ゆゐ", and "るゐ", most dictionaries do not have "すゐ" and "すゐ" as historical readings for 穂/穗. According to historical data, the on-readings of 穂/穗 are the modern "すい" and "ずい". However, the Dai Kanwa Jiten, has the -ゐ historical on-readings.

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *po. Related to 秀(ほ) (ho, “exceling; standing out”).

• (Tokyo) ほ [hóꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])^[1]
• IPA^(key): [ho̞]

穂(ほ) • (ho) 

1. ear of grain
2. (calligraphy) tip of a brush