# 耦

| 耦 | U+8026, &#32806; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8026 |
| ← 耥 [U+8025] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 耧 → [U+8027] |

## Translingual
### Han character

耦 (Kangxi radical 127, 耒+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 手木田中月 (QDWLB), four-corner 5692$_7$, composition ⿰耒禺)
* plow side by side
* team of two

#### Derived characters

* 𡂮, 𡫢, 藕, 𥨱, 𬕽

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 964, character 6
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28952
* Dae Jaweon: page 1412, character 13
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2774, character 8
* Unihan data for U+8026

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 齵 | *ŋoː, *ŋo |
| 偶 | *ŋoːʔ, *ŋoːs |
| 耦 | *ŋoːʔ |
| 藕 | *ŋoːʔ |
| 髃 | *ŋoːʔ, *ŋo |
| 蕅 | *ŋoːʔ |
| 愚 | *ŋo |
| 隅 | *ŋo |
| 禺 | *ŋo, *ŋos |
| 湡 | *ŋo |
| 堣 | *ŋo |
| 嵎 | *ŋo |
| 鰅 | *ŋo, *ŋoŋ |
| 鍝 | *ŋo |
| 遇 | *ŋos |
| 寓 | *ŋos |
| 庽 | *ŋos |
| 媀 | *ŋos |
| 喁 | *ŋoŋ |
| 顒 | *ŋoŋ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *ŋoːʔ) : semantic 耒 (“tilling tool”) + phonetic 禺 (OC *ŋo, *ŋos), paired working in the fields.

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): ǒu (ou$^3$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄡˇ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): ngau$^5$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: ǒu
*** Zhuyin: ㄡˇ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: ǒu
*** Wade–Giles: ou$^3$
*** Yale: ǒu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: oou
*** Palladius: оу (ou)
*** Sinological IPA : /ˀoʊ̯²¹⁴/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: ngau$^5$
*** Yale: ngáuh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: ngau$^5$
*** Guangdong Romanization: ngeo$^5$
*** Sinological IPA : /ŋɐu̯¹³/
* Middle Chinese: nguwX
Rime :
| Character | 耦 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Initial (聲) | 疑 (31) |
| Final (韻) | 侯 (137) |
| Tone (調) | Rising (X) |
| Openness (開合) | Open |
| Division (等) | I |
| Fanqie | 五口切 |
| Baxter | nguwX |
| Reconstructions ||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /ŋəu$^X$/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /ŋəu$^X$/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /ŋəu$^X$/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /ŋəw$^X$/ |
| Li Rong | /ŋu$^X$/ |
| Wang Li | /ŋəu$^X$/ |
| Bernard Karlgren | /ŋə̯u$^X$/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | ǒu |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | ngau$^5$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋˤ(r)oʔ/
    (Zhengzhang): /*ŋoːʔ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 耦 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | ǒu |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ nguw$^X$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*ŋˁ(r)oʔ/ |
| English | pair (n.) |
| Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary. ||
Zhengzhang system (2003) :
| Character | 耦 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| No. | 15914 |
| Phonetic component | 禺 |
| Rime group | 侯 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 藕 |
| Old Chinese | /*ŋoːʔ/ |

### Definitions

耦
* (archaic) to plow side-by-side
* pair; couple (two humans as a unit)
    From: The Analects of Confucius, c. 475 – 221 BCE, translated based on James Legge's version
    Chángjǔ, Jiénì ǒu ér gēng, Kǒngzǐ guò zhī, shǐ Zǐlù wènjīn yān. [Pinyin]
    Changju and Jieni were at work in the field as a pair, when Confucius passed by them, and sent Zilu to inquire for the ford from them.
* Alternative form of 偶 (ǒu, “match; pair; couple; even; etc.”)

#### Compounds

* 二五耦
* 佳耦
* 嘉耦
* 妃耦 (pèi'ǒu)
* 對耦／对耦
* 怨耦
* 睠以佳耦
* 耦合 (ǒuhé)
* 耦耕
* 耦語／耦语
* 齊大非耦／齐大非耦

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* plow side by side
* team of two

#### Readings

* On (unclassified): ごう (gō)、ぐ (gu)、ぐう (gū)

## Korean
### Hanja

耦 • (u) (hangeul 우, revised u, McCune–Reischauer u, Yale wu)
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