字の旅3,000 years in three forms
Bronze · Western ZhouWestern Zhou · c. 1000 BCE耒父己尊, 集成05647
Bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
部首Radical · in Tools & Weapons
耒
耒 plow
らいすき raisuki
6 strokesRadical of 2 kanjiPart of 2
Your ink in 耒0% painted · 0 of 2 familiar
Memory story · made up to help you remember
“Break the ground! Imagine a sturdy farmer leaning their weight into a wooden plow, carving deep furrows into the rich soil. This radical is the heartbeat of cultivation and hard work. When you see it, think of the effort required to prepare the land for a future harvest. It’s the radical of the "toiler."”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates plowing, farming, preparing the earth, manual labor, or actions associated with agricultural tools.
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 耒, with sourced origins
- 耕tillコウ · たがやす
耒 + 井sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 耒 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 2 kanji