jià
sow grain
Phonosemantic compound. 禾 represents the meaning and 家 represents the sound.
Evolution
Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernDefinitions
Most common words with 稼
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
farm crop | ||
crop land | ||
to sow grain | ||
peasant | ||
(coll.) farmer |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*kˤra-s | kaeH | jià | grain; sow (v.) |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
Appears in 1.0732% of movies
3253rd most common character in movies
2800th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 15 |
Unicode | U+7A3C |
Shuowen | “稼，禾之秀實為稼，莖節為禾。从禾，家聲。一曰稼，家事也。一曰在野曰稼。” |
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