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畊

gēng
verb

Meanings

  1. 1 to plow; to till (a variant of 耕)

Examples

农夫畊田播种。
Nóngfū gēng tián bōzhǒng.
The farmer plowed the field and sowed the seeds.
这是古写法，同耕田的耕。
Zhè shì gǔ xiěfǎ, tóng gēngtián de gēng.
This is an old written form, the same as 'to plow' in 耕田.

Tips

usage
畊 is an old variant of 耕 (to plow). Modern Chinese uses 耕 in all normal contexts; 畊 survives mainly in classical texts and some personal names.

Components

radical
田 tián
field
The field radical on the left, the meaning carrier. Plowing is done in fields, so this picture of a partitioned plot gives the core sense.
phonetic
井 jǐng
well; field-grid
On the right, supplying the sound. Read 井 on its own; here it shifts to gēng. Its grid shape also evokes the old well-field land system.

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Stroke Order

畊 gēng