mǔ
Chinese land measure
A man 久 pacing out a plot of land 亩
Evolution
Bronze script
Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 畝
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
classifier for fields | ||
acre | ||
field | ||
area of farmland | ||
are (1 are = 1⁄100 hectare, or 100 m²) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*məʔ (< *mˤoʔ ?) | muwX | mǔ | Chinese acre |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.5057% of movies
3076th most common character in movies
2360th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 10 |
Simplified | |
Unicode | U+755D |
Shuowen | “畮，六尺為步，步百為畮。从田，每聲。，畮或从田、十、久。” |
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