耨

耨	U+8028, 耨 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8028

← 耧
[U+8027]

CJK Unified Ideographs

耩 →
[U+8029]

Translingual

Han character

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

hoe, rake
weed

References

KangXi: page 964, character 13

Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28961

Dae Jaweon: page 1412, character 20

Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2775, character 6

Unihan data for U+8028

Chinese

trad.		耨
simp. ^#		耨
alternative forms		鎒／𬭦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (辱) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
耨	noːɡs, nuːɡ
槈	*noːɡs
鎒	*noːɡs
搙	rnoːɡ, nuːɡ
褥	nuːɡ, njoɡ
傉	*nuːɡ
辱	*njoɡ
縟	*njoɡ
蓐	*njoɡ
鄏	*njoɡ
溽	*njoɡ
媷	*njoɡ
嗕	*njoɡ

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): nòu (nou⁴)
(Zhuyin): ㄋㄡˋ
Cantonese (Jyutping): nau⁶
Min Nan (POJ): lō͘

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: nòu
  - Zhuyin: ㄋㄡˋ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: nòu
  - Wade–Giles: nou⁴
  - Yale: nòu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: now
  - Palladius: ноу (nou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /noʊ̯⁵¹/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
  - Jyutping: nau⁶
  - Yale: nauh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: nau⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: neo⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /nɐu̯²²/
Min Nan
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lō͘
  - Tâi-lô: lōo
  - Phofsit Daibuun: lo
  - IPA (Xiamen): /lɔ²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔ⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔ²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /lɔ³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔ³³/

Middle Chinese: /nəu^H/, /nuok̚/

Rime
Character	耨	耨
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	泥 (8)	泥 (8)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)	冬 (6)
Tone (調)	Departing (H)	Checked (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Open
Division (等)	I	I
Fanqie	奴豆切	内沃切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/nəu^H/	/nuok̚/
Pan Wuyun	/nəu^H/	/nuok̚/
Shao Rongfen	/nəu^H/	/nok̚/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/nəw^H/	/nawk̚/
Li Rong	/nu^H/	/nok̚/
Wang Li	/nəu^H/	/nuok̚/
Bernard Karlgren	/nə̯u^H/	/nuok̚/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	nòu	nù
Expected Cantonese Reflex	nau⁶	nuk⁶

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*nˤok-s/
(Zhengzhang): /*noːɡs/, /*nuːɡ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	耨
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	nòu
Middle Chinese	‹ nuw^H ›
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	耨	耨
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	10869	10875
Phonetic component	辱	辱
Rime group	候	覺
Rime subdivision	0	1
Corresponding MC rime	搙
Old Chinese	/*noːɡs/	/*nuːɡ/

Definitions

耨

(historical, agriculture) an ancient tool for weeding similar to a hoe
(literary) to hoe; to weed
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

耒耨之教
耕耨
阿耨多羅／阿耨多罗 (ānòuduōluó)

Japanese

Kanji

耨

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

hoe, rake
plough, plow
kanji used to transliterate Buddhist terms borrowed from Sanskrit

Readings

From Middle Chinese 耨 (MC nəu^H):

Go-on: ぬ (nu)
Kan-on: どう (dō)
Kun: くわ (kuwa, 耨)^{←くは (kufa, historical)}

From Middle Chinese 耨 (MC nuok̚):

Go-on: のく (noku)
Kan-on: じょく (joku)^{←ぢよく (dyoku, historical)}

Readings shared by both kanji:

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

Compounds

耨耕(じょくこう) (jokukō), 耨耕(じょっこう) (jokkō)
耨(じょく)農(のう) (jokunō)
耨耕(どうこう) (dōkō)
阿(あ)耨(のく)観音(かんのん) (Anoku Kannon)
阿(あ)耨(のく)達池(だっち) (Anokudatchi)
阿(あ)耨(のく)多羅(たら)三(さん)藐(みゃく)三菩(さんぼ)提(だい) (anokutara sanmyaku sanbodai)

Korean

Hanja

耨 • (nu) (hangeul 누, revised nu, McCune–Reischauer nu, Yale nwu)

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