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Kanji Detail for 畝 - "ridge, furrow"
畝
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Meaning
畝 means "ridge, furrow." Also associated with unit of area.
Ridge - A raised strip in a field.
Furrow - A groove made by a plow.
Acre - A unit of land measurement.
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Tattoo check: 畝
- Verified meaning: ridge, furrow
- Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
- Used in real Japanese given names (read うね, うねざき, うねび, たんぼ)
- Also carries these associations: unit of area
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.
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Name readings of 畝
Surnames 畝(うね)
畝(うねざき)
畝(うねび)
畝(たんぼ)
畝(たんぽ)
畝(ぼう)
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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."
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Related Keywords
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- 田 rice field, countryside
- 由 reason, origin, freedom
- 甲 first, armor, shell
- 申 to state, monkey, to report
- 男 man, son
- 町 town
- 画 picture, to plan
- 毘 assist
- 界 boundary, world, limit
- 畏 awe, respect, fear
- 畑 field, farm, specialty
- 畔 ridge, bank
- 留 to fasten, to stay
- 畜 livestock, domestic animals
- 畠 field, farm
- 畢 complete, net
- 略 to abbreviate, strategy
- 異 different, strange
- 番 in turn, number, watch
- 畳 tatami, to fold up
- 畿 capital region, imperial domain
- 疊 to fold, pile, tatami