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liángnóng

food and agriculture

liáng grain, food Simplified

Phonosemantic compound. 米 represents the meaning and 良 represents the sound. Simplified form of 糧.

Components

米 Meaning component

mǐ rice

良 Sound component

liáng good

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Old Chinese
Zhengzhang	raŋ

說文解字

《說文》：“糧，穀也。从米，量聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Zhengzhang Shangfang
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

nóng agriculture, farming Simplified

Simplified form of 農. Depicts using a farming tool (辰) in a field (田).

Components

辰 Iconic Simplified component

chén early morning

Depicts a farming tool.

田 Deleted component

tián field

The 田 (field) component was deleted for simplification.

Component uses

Sound (1 of 4 verified)

Sources

Character origin: 李学勤《字源》p.207
Readings & variants: Unicode

liáng grain, food Traditional

Phonosemantic compound. 米 represents the meaning and 量 represents the sound.

Components

米 Meaning component

mǐ rice

量 Sound component

liàng, liang, liáng measure

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Spring and Autumn 771-476 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Regular Modern

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	ljang	[r]aŋ	grain, provisions

說文解字

《說文》：“糧，穀也。从米，量聲。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

nóng agriculture, farming Traditional

Depicts using a farming tool (辰) in a field (田).

Components

田 Iconic component

tián field

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 田 than it was in ancient scripts.

辰 Iconic component

chén early morning

Depicts a farming tool.

Character Evolution

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Oracle form — Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Mid Western Zhou ~900 BC

Bronze form — Bronze Late Western Zhou ~800 BC

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Seal form — Seal Shuowen ~100 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Qin 221-206 BC

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Han 202 BC-9 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Eastern Han 25-220 AD

Clerical form — Clerical Western Jin 266-316 AD

Regular Modern

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Component uses

Sound (1 of 5 verified)

膿噥儂憹濃

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	nowng	nˤ[o]ŋ	agriculture; to farm

說文解字

《說文》：“，耕也。从，囟聲。，籀文从林。，古文；辳，亦古文。”

Sources

Character origin: 李学勤《字源》p.207
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)