U+8028, 耨
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8028

[U+8027]
CJK Unified Ideographs
[U+8029]

Translingual

Han character

(radical 127, +10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手木一女戈 (QDMVI), four-corner 51943, composition)

  1. hoe, rake
  2. weed

References

  • KangXi: page 964, character 13
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28961
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1412, character 20
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2775, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+8028

Chinese

simp. and trad.
variant forms

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
*noːɡs, *nuːɡ
*noːɡs
*noːɡs
*rnoːɡ, *nuːɡ
*nuːɡ, *njoɡ
*nuːɡ
*njoɡ
*njoɡ
*njoɡ
*njoɡ
*njoɡ
*njoɡ
*njoɡ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲, OC *noːɡs, *nuːɡ) : semantic  (plough) + phonetic  (OC *njoɡ).

Etymology

Sino-Tibetan; compare Mizo hnu (work finished; harvested or weed area) (Schuessler, 2007). (OC *nuːŋ) may be a derivative (ibid.).

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/2 2/2
Initial () (8) (8)
Final () (137) (6)
Tone (調) Departing (H) Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Open
Division () I I
Fanqie
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/nəuH/ /nuok̚/
Pan
Wuyun
/nəuH/ /nuok̚/
Shao
Rongfen
/nəuH/ /nok̚/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/nəwH/ /nawk̚/
Li
Rong
/nuH/ /nok̚/
Wang
Li
/nəuH/ /nuok̚/
Bernard
Karlgren
/nə̯uH/ /nuok̚/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
nòu
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
nòu
Middle
Chinese
‹ nuwH ›
Old
Chinese
/*nˁok-s/
English to hoe, to weed

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
Reading # 1/2 2/2
No. 10869 10875
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 1
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*noːɡs/ /*nuːɡ/

Definitions

  1. (historical, agriculture) an ancient tool for weeding similar to a hoe
  2. (literary) to hoe; to weed
  3. A surname.

Compounds

  • 刀耕火耨
  • 深耕易耨
  • 火耕水耨
  • 火耨刀耕
  • 耒耨
  • 耒耨之利

Japanese

Kanji

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

  1. hoe, rake
  2. plough, plow
  3. kanji used to transliterate Buddhist terms borrowed from Sanskrit

Readings

From Middle Chinese (MC nəuH):

  • Go-on: (nu)
  • Kan-on: どう ()
  • Kun: くわ (kuwa, )くは (kufa, historical)

From Middle Chinese (MC nuok̚):

Readings shared by both kanji:

  • Kun: くさぎる (kusagiru, 耨る); すく (suku, 耨く)

Compounds


Korean

Hanja

(nu) (hangeul , revised nu, McCuneReischauer nu, Yale nwu)

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