畟
cè

plough

A man 夂 making a furrow 八 in a field 田

Components

田
田 Meaning component
tián field
八
八 Meaning component
bā eight
夂
夂 Meaning component
zhǐ, zhōng go

Character Evolution

Seal form
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD
Regular Modern

Component uses

Sound (0 of 2 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

Middle ChineseOld ChineseGloss
Baxter-SagarttsrhikNə-[tsʰ]rəksharp-cutting
Zhengzhangsklɯɡ
skʰrɯɡ

說文解字

治稼畟畟進也。从田、人,从夊。《詩》曰:“畟畟良耜。”

Sources

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