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Bronze Late Shang ~1100 BC 
Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC 
Seal Shuowen ~100 AD Regular Modern
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Pictograph of a farming tool used to make furrows in the ground.
Character Evolution
Historical Pronunciations
| Old Chinese | |
|---|---|
| Zhengzhang | ruːls |
| rulʔ |
說文解字
《說文》：“耒，手耕曲木也。从木推丰。古者垂作耒，以振民也。”
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- Character origin
- 漢語多功能字庫
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- Unicode
- Historical pronunciations
- Zhengzhang Shangfang
- Historical images
- Academia Sinica
- Etymology
- Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)