農
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Translingual
Han character
農 (radical 161, 辰+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿田一一女 (TWMMV), four-corner 55232, composition ⿱曲辰)
References
- KangXi: page 1252, character 24
- Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38688
- Dae Jaweon: page 1733, character 12
- Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3607, character 3
- Unihan data for U+8FB2
Chinese
| trad. | 農 | |
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| simp. | 农 | |
| variant forms | 辳 | |
Glyph origin
| Historical forms of the character 農 | |||
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| Shang | Western Zhou | Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) | Liushutong (compiled in Ming) |
| Oracle bone script | Bronze inscriptions | Small seal script | Transcribed ancient scripts |
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| Characters in the same phonetic series (農) (Zhengzhang, 2003) | |
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| Old Chinese | |
| 嶩 | *nuː |
| 噥 | *rnuːŋ, *nuːŋ |
| 鬞 | *rnuːŋ, *noŋ |
| 擃 | *rnuːŋʔ |
| 齈 | *noːŋs |
| 癑 | *noːŋs |
| 農 | *nuːŋ |
| 辳 | *nuːŋ |
| 憹 | *nuːŋ |
| 膿 | *nuːŋ |
| 儂 | *nuːŋ |
| 濃 | *noŋ |
| 醲 | *noŋ |
| 襛 | *noŋ, *njoŋ |
| 穠 | *noŋ, *njoŋ |
| 檂 | *noŋ |
In current form Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 曲 + 辰 (“field”). Top unrelated to 曲, and previously two hands, one on either side of a bundle 田 – a farmer bringing goods to market, from the field 辰.
Etymology
Probably Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with 耨 (OC *noːɡs, *nuːɡ, “hoe, rake; to weed”), possibly derived from it with the terminative suffix *-ŋ for action with a goal, i.e. "to get a field hoed" > "cultivated"; compare 亡 (OC *maŋ, “to disappear”) from 無 (OC *ma, “(there is) no”) (Schuessler, 2007).
Huang (2000), Norman (1983) and Zhou (1986) hypothesised that this is the same etymon as 儂 (OC *nuːŋ, “person, I, me”). See there for more.
Pronunciation
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Japanese
Etymology
| Kanji in this term |
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| 農 |
| のう Grade: 3 |
| on’yomi |
From Middle Chinese 農 (nowng, “agriculture, farming”).
Usage notes
For the farmer sense, the terms 農家 (nōka) or 農夫 (nōfu, “male farmer”) or 農婦 (nōfu, “female farmer”) may be used more often.
Derived terms
- 農園 (nōen): a plantation (emphasis on the growing of garden products)
- 農家 (nōka): a farmer; a farming family
- 農業 (nōgyō): farming (as an occupation)
- 農作 (nōsaku): farming (with an emphasis on the work itself)
- 農商 (nōshō): agriculture and commerce
- 農場 (nōjō): a farm (including the buildings)
- 農地 (nōchi): agricultural land, a farm (emphasis on the land)
- 農民 (nōmin): a peasant, an agrarian