rěn
ripe grain
Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 念 represents the sound.
Evolution

Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*nimʔ | nyimX | rěn | harvest, year |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5151st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Unicode | U+7A14 |
Shuowen | “稔,穀孰也。从禾,念聲。《春秋傳》曰:‘鮮不五稔’。” |
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