耒

See also 未, and 禾

Translingual

Stroke order

Etymology

Pictogram (象形) – a wooden (木) plow with originally three cross lines (彡) for the furrows of the plow, later simplified to two.

耒	耒
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Han character

耒 (radical 127 耒+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 手木 (QD), four-corner 5090₀)

1. handle of plow
2. plow
3. rad. 127

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/耒

References

• KangXi: page 962, character 16
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28898
• Dae Jaweon: page 1410, character 15
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2770, character 1
• Unihan data for U+8012

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Cantonese

Hanzi

耒 (jyutping loei6, loi6, Yale leui6, loi6)

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Hakka

Hanzi

耒 (POJ lói, Guangdong loi³, Hagfa Pinyim loi3)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

耒

Readings

• On: らい (rai), るい (rui)
• Kun: すき (suki)

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Korean

Hanja

耒 (hangeul 뢰>뇌, revised roe>noe, McCune-Reischauer roe>noe, Yale loy>noy)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

耒 (pinyin lěi (lei3), máo (mao2), mào (mao4), Wade-Giles lei³, mao², mao⁴)

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Vietnamese

Han character

耒 (lỗi, lồi, doi, lọi, lội, lòi, rồi, ròi, lẫn, rổi, rỗi, rủi)