農

See also 农

Translingual

Etymology

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.

Han character

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

1. agriculture, farming
2. farmer

Derived characters

• 濃 膿

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

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Cantonese

Hanzi

農 (simplified 农, Yale nung4)

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Japanese

Kanji

農 (grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

• On: のう (nō), どう (dō)
• Kun: くさぎる (kusagiru), たがやす (tagayasu)

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Korean

Hanja

農
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 농사()

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Mandarin

Hanzi

農 (simplified 农, pinyin bian (bian5), nóng (nong2), Wade-Giles pien⁵, nung²)

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Vietnamese

Han character

農 (nông, nong, nôn, núng)