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耕

耕

Translingual

Han character

耕 (radical 127 耒+4, 10 strokes, cangjie input 手木廿廿 (QDTT), four-corner 55900, composition ⿰耒井)

  1. plow, cultivate

References

  • KangXi: page 962, character 23
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28907
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1410, character 23
  • Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2770, character 10
  • Unihan data for U+8015

Chinese

simp. and trad.
 耕
alt. forms 畊

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 耕
Large seal script Small seal script
Characters in the same phonetic series (井) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 
Old Chinese
硎 *kʰreːŋ, *ɡeːŋ
耕 *kreːŋ
荊 *keŋ
井 *skeŋʔ
丼 *kloːmʔ, *skeŋʔ
妌 *sɡeŋʔ
穽 *sɡeŋʔ, *sɡeŋs
阱 *sɡeŋʔ, *sɡeŋs
汫 *sɡeːŋʔ
刑 *ɡeːŋ
形 *ɡeːŋ
邢 *ɡeːŋ
鉶 *ɡeːŋ
型 *ɡeːŋ
侀 *ɡeːŋ

Pronunciation

  • Dialectal data▼
Variety Location 耕
Mandarin Beijing /kəŋ⁵⁵/
/t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵/
Harbin /t͡ɕiŋ⁴⁴/
/kəŋ⁴⁴/
Tianjin /kəŋ²¹/
Jinan /kəŋ²¹³/
/t͡ɕiŋ²¹³/
Qingdao /t͡ɕiŋ²¹³/
Zhengzhou /kəŋ²⁴/
Xi'an /kəŋ²¹/
Xining /kə̃⁴⁴/
Yinchuan /kəŋ⁴⁴/
Lanzhou /kə̃n³¹/
Ürümqi /kɤŋ⁴⁴/
Wuhan /kən⁵⁵/
Chengdu /kən⁵⁵/
Guiyang /ken⁵⁵/
Kunming /kə̃/
Nanjing /kən³¹/
Hefei /kən²¹/
Jin Taiyuan /kəŋ¹¹/ 農～
/t͡ɕiəŋ¹¹/ ～地
Pingyao /kəŋ¹³/
/t͡ɕie̞¹³/ ～地
Hohhot /kə̃ŋ³¹/ 春～
/t͡ɕĩŋ³¹/ ～地
Wu Shanghai /kəŋ⁵³/
Suzhou /kən⁵⁵/
Hangzhou /ken³³/
Wenzhou /kiɛ³³/
Hui Shexian /kʌ̃³¹/
/kɛ³¹/
Tunxi /t͡ɕiɛ¹¹/
Xiang Changsha /kən³³/
Xiangtan /kən³³/
Gan Nanchang /kɑŋ⁴²/
Hakka Meixian /kaŋ⁴⁴/
Taoyuan /kɑŋ²⁴/
Cantonese Guangzhou /kɐŋ⁵³/
/kaŋ⁵³/
Nanning /kaŋ⁵⁵/
Hong Kong /kɐŋ⁵⁵/
Min Xiamen (Min Nan) /kiŋ⁵⁵/
Fuzhou (Min Dong) /kɛiŋ⁴⁴/
Jian'ou (Min Bei) /kaiŋ⁵⁴/
Shantou (Min Nan) /kẽ³³/
Haikou (Min Nan) /keŋ²³/
/kɔŋ²³/
/kɛ²³/
Rime
Character 耕
Reading # 1/1
Initial (聲) 見 (28)
Final (韻) 耕 (117)
Tone (調) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open
Division (等) II
Fanqie 古莖切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang		 /kˠɛŋ/
Pan
Wuyun		 /kᵚæŋ/
Shao
Rongfen		 /kɐŋ/
Edwin
Pulleyblank		 /kəɨjŋ/
Li
Rong		 /kɛŋ/
Wang
Li		 /kæŋ/
Bernard
Karlgren		 /kæŋ/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex		 gēng
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character 耕
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)		 gēng
Middle
Chinese		 ‹ kɛng ›
Old
Chinese		 /*kˤ<r>eŋ/
English plow (v.)

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 耕
Reading # 1/1
No. 6850
Phonetic
component		 井
Rime
group		 耕
Rime
subdivision		 0
Corresponding
MC rime		 耕
Old
Chinese		 /*kreːŋ/

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References

Japanese

Kanji

耕

(grade 5 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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Readings

Korean

Hanja

耕 • ‎(gyeong) (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng, Yale kyeng)

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Vietnamese

Han character

耕 (canh)

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