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chóu

plowed field

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approved by Marcus Ngai · Feb 21, 2026, 03:48 AM · Reviewed by Marcus Ngai on Feb 21, 2026, 03:48 AM

Felt the character looked too weird, so I updated it. Revert the change if you guys don't think it looks better than the original.

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Depicts a plowed furrow in between of two fields. Original form of 疇.

Character Evolution

Oracle form
Oracle Bone ~1250-1000 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-Sagartdrjuw[d]ruplowed field

說文解字

《說文》：“，耕治之田也。从田，象耕屈之形。，或省。”

Sources

Character origin
說文解字
Readings & variants
Unicode
Historical pronunciations
Baxter-Sagart
Historical images
Academia Sinica
Etymology
Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)