Meaning & readings
agriculture, farmers
On’yomi ノウ
Nanori な、の、み
Origin
This character combines two elements to represent agriculture. The top part, 曲, suggests something curved or bent, which refers to the back-breaking work of farming—the physical labor of bending over fields. The bottom part, 辰, is a classifier for celestial bodies and time, representing the seasonal cycles and heavens that farmers depend on for crops. Together, these parts evoke the essence of farming: human labor coordinated with the rhythms of seasons and weather.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Compound ideographic (combined meanings).
Components
- 曲
- 辰
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 13
- Kangxi radical
- 161
- Grade
- Grade 3 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #385 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 2
- Unicode
- U+08FB2