農

農 (Kangxi radical 161, 辰+6, 13 strokes, cangjie input 廿田一一女 (TWMMV), four-corner 5523₂, composition ⿱曲辰)

• 儂, 𠘊, 噥, 𡢿, 嶩, 𢐪, 憹, 擃, 濃, 㺜, 𮞀, 𣋏, 檂, 燶, 禯, 膿, 䁸, 䃩, 穠, 襛, 繷, 𦗳, 𧓅, 𪞽, 𨑊, 譨, 𨆞, 𮜻, 𨐺, 醲, 𨲳, 𫓒, 𩟊, 𩼅, 𪇌, 䵜, 𬉰, 𬍎, 𪒬, 齈
• 𣰊, 𪆯, 蕽, 𫧪, 𥵛, 𩅽, 鬞, 癑, 𢖢, 欁

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 1252, character 24
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 38688
• Dae Jaweon: page 1733, character 12
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 6, page 3607, character 3
• Unihan data for U+8FB2

Historical forms of the character 農
Shang	Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

In its current form, an ideogrammic compound (會意 / 会意): 曲 + 辰 (“field”). Top unrelated to 曲, and previously two hands, one on either side of a bundle 田 – a farmer bringing goods to market, from the field 辰.

Probably Sino-Tibetan. Cognate with 耨 (OC *noːɡs, *nuːɡ, “hoe, rake; to weed”), possibly derived from it with the terminative suffix *-ŋ for action with a goal, i.e. "to get a field hoed" > "cultivated"; compare 亡 (OC *maŋ, “to disappear”) from 無 (OC *ma, “(there is) no”) (Schuessler, 2007).

Huang (2000), Norman (1983) and Zhou (1986) hypothesised that this is the same etymon as 儂 (OC *nuːŋ, “person, I, me”). See there for more.

農

1. to cultivate; to farm
2. land cultivation; farming; agriculture
3. farmer; grower

   菜農／菜农  ―  càinóng  ―  vegetable farmer

4. (Catholicism) Nun
5. a surname

• (farmer):

• (Nun): (Protestantism) 嫩 (nèn)

• “農”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎, 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–

(Third grade kyōiku kanji)

1. agriculture, farming

• Go-on: のう (nō, Jōyō)、の (no)
• Kan-on: どう (dō)
• Nanori: な (na)、の (no)、み (mi)

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

農

Wikipedia ^ja

From Middle Chinese 農 (nowng, “agriculture, farming”).

• (Tokyo) のー (Atamadaka – )^[1][2]
• IPA^(key):

農(のう) • (nō) 

1. agriculture, farming
2. a farmer

For the farmer sense, the terms 農家 (nōka) or 農夫 (nōfu, “male farmer”) or 農婦 (nōfu, “female farmer”) may be used more often.

From Middle Chinese 農 (MC nowng).

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key):
• Phonetic hangul:

Korean Wikisource has texts containing the hanja:

農

Wikisource

農 (eumhun 농사 농 (nongsa nong))

1. hanja form^? of 농 (“agriculture”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典.

農: Hán Nôm readings: nông, nong, nôn, núng

農

1. chữ Hán form of nông.
   1. farming

      藝(nghề)農(nông) ― farming

      𫜵(làm)農(nông) ― to do farming; to farm

   2. Clipping of 農業 (nông nghiệp) (“agriculture”).

      工(công)農(nông) ― industrial and agricultural, worker and peasants

農

1. chữ Hán form of Nông.
   1. a surname from Tày
   2. a surname from Nùng