Kanji Detail for 畝 - "ridge, furrow, field"

畝

Jōyō Kanji

JLPT N1

Meaning
畝 means "ridge, furrow, field."
1. Ridge - A raised strip in a field.
2. Furrow - A groove made by a plow.
3. Acre - A unit of land measurement.
Dictionary Citations
The meaning above is based on the following sources:

KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

furrow; thirty tsubo; ridge; rib

Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

Chinese land measure; fields

CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

classifier for fields; unit of area equal to one fifteenth of a hectare

Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

fields; unit of area equal to 660 sq. m.

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

The unit for counting farmland. The method of measuring fields takes five feet in length and width as one square bu. Two hundred forty square bu make one mu. The area of one mu is six thousand square feet. | Field ridges are called 畝. (Book of Odes) "Their fields face south and east."
Onyomi

boh(ぼう)

ho(ほ)
Kunyomi

se(せ)

une(うね)
Strokes

10 strokes
Radical

田 (ta・tahen)
Related Keywords
ridge furrow row field farm agriculture cultivation planting soil earth land acre area measure unit stripe line groove channel