耕耘

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Chinese

to plough; to till to weed
trad. (耕耘)
simp. #(耕耘)

Pronunciation



Rime
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
Initial () (28) (35)
Final () (117) (59)
Tone (調) Level (Ø) Level (Ø)
Openness (開合) Open Closed
Division () II III
Fanqie
Baxter keang hjun
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang
Shangfang
/kˠɛŋ/ /ɦɨun/
Pan
Wuyun
/kᵚæŋ/ /ɦiun/
Shao
Rongfen
/kɐŋ/ /ɣiuən/
Edwin
Pulleyblank
/kəɨjŋ/ /ɦun/
Li
Rong
/kɛŋ/ /ɣiuən/
Wang
Li
/kæŋ/ /ɣĭuən/
Bernhard
Karlgren
/kæŋ/ /i̯uən/
Expected
Mandarin
Reflex
gēng yún
Expected
Cantonese
Reflex
gang1 wan4
BaxterSagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character
Reading # 1/1
Modern
Beijing
(Pinyin)
gēng
Middle
Chinese
‹ kɛng ›
Old
Chinese
/*kˁ<r>eŋ/
English plow (v.)

Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system:

* Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence;
* Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. * as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p;
* Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix;
* Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary;

* Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character
Reading # 1/1 1/1
No. 6850 16360
Phonetic
component
Rime
group
Rime
subdivision
0 2
Corresponding
MC rime
Old
Chinese
/*kreːŋ/ /*ɢun/
Notes

Verb

耕耘

  1. (literally) to plow and weed; to do farm work; to cultivate
  2. (figuratively) to work or study diligently

Derived terms

Japanese

Kanji in this term
こう
Grade: 5
うん
Hyōgai
on'yomi

Etymology

From Middle Chinese 耕耘 (MC keang hjun).

Pronunciation

Noun

(こう)(うん) (kōunかううん (kauun)?

  1. plowing and weeding

Verb

(こう)(うん)する (kōun suruかううん (kauun)?suru (stem (こう)(うん) (kōun shi), past (こう)(うん)した (kōun shita))

  1. to plow and weed

Conjugation

References

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN