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農: agriculture, farmers

JLPT N213 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met

辰 carries the meaning · 曲 is drawn in

13 strokes

One reading, and the words that use it

ノウnou · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 農民のうみんfarmers
  • 農業のうぎょうagriculture
  • 農家のうかfarm family
  • 農村のうそんfarm village
  • 農場のうじょうfarm [n.]
  • 農協のうきょうagricultural cooperative
  • 農作物のうさくもつcrops
  • 農産物のうさんぶつagricultural produce
  • 酪農らくのうdairy

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Ideogrammic compound (會意)林 vegetation + 辰 hoe

To remove weeds.

Source: Wiktionary, 農 (rev. 92289027), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Dragon (辰) +曲 (bent/plow variant). Represents the hard "labor" of "farming" that begins early in the morning and involves bending over the earth.”
From the 辰 fifth zodiac sign story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
曲

Also built on bend (曲)

辰

Also built on fifth zodiac sign (辰)

All 6

農 gives its sound to

The family reading is ノウ (nou). Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read ノウ

5 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
農 agriculture · 曲
vs晨 morning · 日
農 has 曲 where 晨 has 日.
In ChineseSimplified 农 · traditional, as in Japanese · nóng

Japan keeps the traditional form 農; mainland China simplifies it to 农.

Simplified
农 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
農 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin nóng 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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