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農

農

See also: 农

Translingual

Han character

農 (radical 161 辰+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿田一一女 (TWMMV), four-corner 55232, composition ⿱曲辰)

Derived characters

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
simp. 农
alt. forms 辳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 農
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (農) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
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.

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 農
Mandarin Beijing /nuŋ³⁵/
Harbin /nəŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /nu⁴⁵/
/nuŋ⁴⁵/
Jinan /nuŋ⁴²/
/nu⁴²/
Qingdao /nu⁴²/
Zhengzhou /nuŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /luŋ²⁴/
Xining /luə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /nuŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /lũn⁵³/
Ürümqi /luŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /noŋ²¹³/
Chengdu /noŋ³¹/
Guiyang /noŋ²¹/
Kunming /noŋ³¹/
Nanjing /loŋ²⁴/
Hefei /ləŋ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /nəŋ¹¹/
/nuəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /nəŋ¹³/
Hohhot /nə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /noŋ²³/
Suzhou /noŋ¹³/
Hangzhou /noŋ²¹³/
/ȵioŋ²¹³/
Wenzhou /noŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /lʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi /lin¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /loŋ¹³/
Xiangtan /nən¹²/
Gan Nanchang /luŋ⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /nuŋ¹¹/
Taoyuan /nuŋ¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /noŋ²¹/
Nanning /nuŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /nuŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lɔŋ³⁵/
/laŋ³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /nuŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /nɔŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /loŋ⁵⁵/
/naŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /nɔŋ³¹/
Rime
Character 農
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 冬 (5)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 奴冬切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /nuoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /nuoŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /noŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /nawŋ/
Li
Rong		 /noŋ/
Wang
Li		 /nuoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /nuoŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 nóng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 農
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 nóng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nowng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*nˤ[o]ŋ/
English agriculture; to farm

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 農
Reading # 1/1
No. 9571
Phonetic
component		 農
Rime
group		 終
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 農
Old
Chinese		 /*nuːŋ/
Notes 金文從田不從囟

Definitions

農

  1. to cultivate; to farm
  2. land cultivation; farming; agriculture
  3. farmer; grower

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

農

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. agriculture, farming

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
農
のう
Grade: 3
on'yomi

From Middle Chinese agriculture, farming ‎(nowng).

Pronunciation

Noun

農 ‎(hiragana のう, romaji nō)

  1. agriculture, farming
  2. a farmer

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

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13905-9
  2. ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, ISBN 4-385-13143-0

Korean

Hanja

農 • ‎(nong)
Eumhun:

  • Sound (hangeul): 농 (revised: nong, McCune-Reischauer: nong, Yale: nong)
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Vietnamese

Han character

農 (nông, nong, nôn, núng)

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