畝
mǔ HSK7

Chinese land measure

A man 久 pacing out a plot of land 亩

Components

亩
亩 Meaning component
mǔ Chinese land measure
久
久 Meaning component
jiǔ long time (ago)

Character Evolution

Bronze form
Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC
Seal form
Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Clerical form
Clerical Qin 221-206 BC
Clerical form
Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD
Regular Modern

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagartmuwXməʔ (< *mˤoʔ ?)Chinese acre
Zhengzhangmɯʔ
Unicodemǒu

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-SagartZhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images
Academia Sinica

亩 mǔ Chinese land measure Simplified

Components

亠
亠 Unknown component
tóu head
田
田 Meaning component
tián field

field

Component uses

Meaning (0 of 1 verified)

畝

Sources

Readings & variants
Unicode