nóng
agriculture, farming
Depicts using a farming tool (辰) in a field (田).
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Western Jin dynasty (266-316 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*nˤ[o]ŋ | nowng | nóng | agriculture; to farm |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 14.3521% of movies
1440th most common character in movies
465th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 13 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+8FB2 |
Shuowen | “,耕也。从,囟聲。,籀文从林。,古文;辳,亦古文。” |
Sources
李学勤《字源》p.207
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