gēng
plow
Phonosemantic compound. 耒 represents the meaning and 井 represents the sound. Simplified form of 畊.
Evolution

Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernHistorical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤ<r>eŋ | keang | gēng | plow (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.2013% of movies
3207th most common character in movies
1850th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Unicode | U+8015 |
Shuowen | “耕,犂也。从耒,井聲。一曰古者井田。” |
Sources
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