old variant of 畝|亩[mǔ]

Evolution

畮 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
畮 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
畮 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Definitions

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old variant of |[mǔ]

Most common words with 畮
Freq.
Word
Meaning

classifier for fields

英亩

acre

田亩

field

地亩

area of farmland

公亩

are (1 are = 1⁄100 hectare, or 100 m²)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*məʔ (< mˤoʔ ?)

muwX

Chinese acre


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Appears in 1.5057% of movies

3076th most common character in movies

2360th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

12

Unicode

U+756E

Shuowen

“畮,六尺為步,步百為畮。从田,每聲。,畮或从田、十、久。”


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