lěi
handle of plow
Pictograph of a farming tool used to make furrows in the ground.
Evolution

Bronze script
Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 耒
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
plow | ||
Leiyang county level city in Hengyang 衡陽|衡阳[Héngyáng], Hunan | ||
Leiyang county level city in Hengyang 衡陽|衡阳[Héngyáng], Hunan | ||
plow |
Component uses
Sound component in 1 character (0 verified)
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
5701st most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 6 |
Unicode | U+8012 |
Shuowen | “耒,手耕曲木也。从木推丰。古者垂作耒,以振民也。” |
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