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漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

畝: furrow, thirty tsubo

Also: ridge, rib

JLPT N110 strokesSecondary schoolYour ink: 白 Not met

亩 and 久 are drawn in

10 strokes
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Small seal: Wikimedia Commons, public domain. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

One reading, and the words that use it

うねune · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 畝うねridge (in field)
  • 畝間うねまfurrow; room with ridged roof
  • 畝溝うねみぞfurrow ridges

Also read ボウ, ホ, モ, ム, せ, with no example words in our sources. Words: JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“The lifeblood of the village! Imagine a patchwork of green rice fields stretching across a fertile valley.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
久

Also built on long time (久)

Also read モ

3 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
畝 furrow · 亩 + 久
vs畜 livestock · 玄 + 田
畝 has 亩 + 久 where 畜 has 玄 + 田.
In ChineseSimplified 亩 · traditional, as in Japanese · mǔ

Japan keeps the traditional form 畝; mainland China simplifies it to 亩.

Simplified
亩 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
畝 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin mǔ most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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