náo​yāng

to weed and loosen soil

  • created sense approved 挠秧/撓秧 · náo​yāng · to weed and loosen soil — "Initial import from upstream dictionary"

    挠秧 / 撓秧

    náo​yāng

    to weed and loosen soil

    to weed a rice field and loosen the soil around the roots of rice seedlings to help them grow

    挠, 秧

    挠 (literal) → 挠/撓 · náo · to scratch 秧 (literal) → 秧 · yāng · seedling

    Changed: simplified, traditional, gloss, definition, pinyin, variant pinyin, variants, separable parts, decomposition

    created sense