農

See also: 农
農 U+8FB2, 農
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8FB2
← 辱
[U+8FB1] 		CJK Unified Ideographs 辳 →
[U+8FB3]

Translingual

Han character

農 (radical 161, 辰+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿田一一女 (TWMMV), four-corner 55232, composition ⿱曲辰)

Derived characters

References

  • KangXi: page 1252, character 24
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38688
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1733, character 12
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 6, page 3607, character 3
  • Unihan data for U+8FB2

Chinese

trad. 農
simp. 农
alt. forms 辳

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 農
Shang Western Zhou Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han) Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script Bronze inscriptions Small seal script Transcribed ancient scripts
Characters in the same phonetic series (農) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
嶩 *nuː
噥 *rnuːŋ, *nuːŋ
鬞 *rnuːŋ, *noŋ
擃 *rnuːŋʔ
齈 *noːŋs
癑 *noːŋs
農 *nuːŋ
辳 *nuːŋ
憹 *nuːŋ
膿 *nuːŋ
儂 *nuːŋ
濃 *noŋ
醲 *noŋ
襛 *noŋ, *njoŋ
穠 *noŋ, *njoŋ
檂 *noŋ

In current form Ideogrammic compound (會意) : 曲 + 辰 (“field”). Top unrelated to 曲, and previously two hands, one on either side of a bundle 田 – a farmer bringing goods to market, from the field 辰.

Pronunciation

Note:
  • lâng - vernacular;
  • lông - literary.
  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 農
Mandarin Beijing /nuŋ³⁵/
Harbin /nəŋ²⁴/
Tianjin /nu⁴⁵/
/nuŋ⁴⁵/
Jinan /nuŋ⁴²/
/nu⁴²/
Qingdao /nu⁴²/
Zhengzhou /nuŋ⁴²/
Xi'an /luŋ²⁴/
Xining /luə̃²⁴/
Yinchuan /nuŋ⁵³/
Lanzhou /lũn⁵³/
Ürümqi /luŋ⁵¹/
Wuhan /noŋ²¹³/
Chengdu /noŋ³¹/
Guiyang /noŋ²¹/
Kunming /noŋ³¹/
Nanjing /loŋ²⁴/
Hefei /ləŋ⁵⁵/
Jin Taiyuan /nəŋ¹¹/
/nuəŋ¹¹/
Pingyao /nəŋ¹³/
Hohhot /nə̃ŋ³¹/
Wu Shanghai /noŋ²³/
Suzhou /noŋ¹³/
Hangzhou /noŋ²¹³/
/ȵioŋ²¹³/
Wenzhou /noŋ³¹/
Hui Shexian /lʌ̃⁴⁴/
Tunxi /lin¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /loŋ¹³/
Xiangtan /nən¹²/
Gan Nanchang /luŋ⁴⁵/
Hakka Meixian /nuŋ¹¹/
Taoyuan /nuŋ¹¹/
Cantonese Guangzhou /noŋ²¹/
Nanning /nuŋ²¹/
Hong Kong /nuŋ²¹/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /lɔŋ³⁵/
/laŋ³⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /nuŋ⁵³/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /nɔŋ²¹/
Shantou (Min Nan) /loŋ⁵⁵/
/naŋ⁵⁵/
Haikou (Min Nan) /nɔŋ³¹/
Rime
Character 農
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 泥 (8)
Final (韻) 冬 (5)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) I
Fanqie 奴冬切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /nuoŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /nuoŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /noŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /nawŋ/
Li
Rong		 /noŋ/
Wang
Li		 /nuoŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /nuoŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 nóng
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 農
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 nóng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ nowng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*nˤ[o]ŋ/
English agriculture; to farm

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character 農
Reading # 1/1
No. 9571
Phonetic
component		 農
Rime
group		 終
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 農
Old
Chinese		 /*nuːŋ/
Notes 金文從田不從囟

Definitions

農

  1. to cultivate; to farm
  2. land cultivation; farming; agriculture
  3. farmer; grower

Compounds

Japanese

Kanji

農

(grade 3 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. agriculture, farming

Readings

Etymology

Kanji in this term
農
のう
Grade: 3
on’yomi

From Middle Chinese 農 (nowng, “agriculture, farming”).

Pronunciation

Noun

農 (hiragana のう, rōmaji nō)

  1. agriculture, farming
  2. a farmer

Usage notes

For the farmer sense, the terms 農家 (nōka) or 農夫 (nōfu, “male farmer”) or 農婦 (nōfu, “female farmer”) may be used more often.

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  2. ↑ 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

農 • (nong)

  • Eumhun:
    • Sound (hangeul): 농 (revised: nong, McCune–Reischauer: nong, Yale: nong)
    • Name (hangeul): 농사
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Vietnamese

Han character

農 (nông, nong, nôn, núng)

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