gěng

ditches for irrigation

Phonosemantic compound. represents the meaning and represents the sound.

Components
土 meaning component

  Meaning component

  

earth

更 sound component

  Sound component

gènggēng

  

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Evolution

埂 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
埂 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

gěng

ditches for irrigation; hole; strip of high ground; low earth dyke separating fields

Most common words with 埂
Freq.
Word
Meaning

strip of high ground

田埂

embankment or foothpath between paddy fields

土埂

embankment or foothpath between paddy fields