農

See also: 农

Translingual

Etymology

In current form Ideogrammic compound (會意): 曲 + 辰. 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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Chinese

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trad.		農
simp.		农

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): nóng (nong²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄋㄨㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): nung⁴

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: nóng
    • Zhuyin: ㄋㄨㄥˊ
    • Wade-Giles: nung²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: nong
    • IPA ^(key): /nʊŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: nung⁴
    • Yale: nùhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: nung⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /nʊŋ²¹/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (農, reconstructed)
Character (農), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 泥 (8) Final: 冬 Division: I			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 奴冬切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/nuoŋ/	/nuoŋ/	/noŋ/	/nuoŋ/	/nawŋ/	/nuoŋ/	/noŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (農, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
農								nóng								‹ nowng ›								/*nˤ[o]ŋ/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
農					9571					農					終					0					農					/*nuːŋ/					金文從田不從囟

Definitions

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Japanese

Kanji

農

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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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 (nong)
Eumhun:

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

• Name (hangeul): 농사()

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Vietnamese

Han character

農 (nông, nong, nôn, núng)

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