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Kanji Detail for 耕 - "to cultivate, to plow"

耕

  • Meaning

    耕 means "to cultivate, to plow."

    1. Cultivate - To prepare land for crops; to till.

    2. Plow - To turn over soil; to farm.

    3. Work - To labor in agriculture; to farm.

  • Words using 耕

    • 耕作 こうさく Listen cultivation; farming
    • 農耕 のうこう Listen farming; agriculture; cultivation
    • 耕す たがやす Listen to till; to plow; to plough

  • Four-character idioms with 耕

    • 晴耕雨読 せいこううどく Listen working in the field in fine weather and reading at home in rainy weather; living in quiet retirement dividing time between work and intellectual pursuits

  • Tattoo check: 耕

    • Verified meaning: to cultivate, to plow
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read おさむ, こう, こうさき, こうじ)

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 耕

    Given names 耕(おさむ)Listen 耕(こう)Listen 耕(たがやす)Listen 耕(つとむ)Listen

    Surnames 耕(こうさき)Listen 耕(こうじ)Listen 耕(こうしょう)Listen 耕(こうそう)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    till; plow; cultivate

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    plow, cultivate

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    variant of 耕[geng1]

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    to plow, to cultivate

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To plow fields. Such as 躬耕 (personally plowing). | All effort applied to other work for one's livelihood like farming is also called 耕. Such as 舌耕 (earning by teaching), 筆耕 (earning by writing).

  • Onyomi

    tip

    koh(コウ) コウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    tagaya.su(たがや-す) たがや-す

  • Strokes

    tip

    10 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    耒 (raisuki・sukihen)

  • Related Keywords

    to cultivate to plow work agriculture crops cultivation earth farm furrow ground grow harvest hoe labor land plant prepare soil sowing till

Sentences including 耕

  • I till the earth.

More kanji with the radical 耒 (raisuki・sukihen)

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