# 耨

| 耨 | U+8028, &#32808; CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8028 |
| ← 耧 [U+8027] | CJK Unified Ideographs | 耩 → [U+8029] |

## Translingual
### Han character

耨 (Kangxi radical 127, 耒+10, 16 strokes, cangjie input 手木一女戈 (QDMVI), four-corner 5194$_3$, composition ⿰耒辱)
* hoe, rake
* weed

#### Derived characters

* 𣟪, 𤒛, 𩽔(𬶹), 𧂭

#### References

* Kangxi Dictionary: page 964, character 13
* Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28961
* Dae Jaweon: page 1412, character 20
* Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2775, character 6
* Unihan data for U+8028

## Chinese
### Glyph origin

| | Old Chinese |
| 耨 | *noːɡs, *nuːɡ |
| 槈 | *noːɡs |
| 鎒 | *noːɡs |
| 搙 | *rnoːɡ, *nuːɡ |
| 褥 | *nuːɡ, *njoɡ |
| 傉 | *nuːɡ |
| 辱 | *njoɡ |
| 縟 | *njoɡ |
| 蓐 | *njoɡ |
| 鄏 | *njoɡ |
| 溽 | *njoɡ |
| 媷 | *njoɡ |
| 嗕 | *njoɡ |
Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *noːɡs, *nuːɡ) : semantic 耒 (“plough”) + phonetic 辱 (OC *njoɡ).

### Etymology

Sino-Tibetan; compare Mizo hnu (“work finished; harvested or weed area”) (Schuessler, 2007). 農 (OC *nuːŋ) may be a derivative (ibid.).

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): nòu (nou$^4$)
    (Zhuyin): ㄋㄡˋ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): nau$^6$
* Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lō͘
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: nòu
*** Zhuyin: ㄋㄡˋ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: nòu
*** Wade–Giles: nou$^4$
*** Yale: nòu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: now
*** Palladius: ноу (nou)
*** Sinological IPA : /noʊ̯⁵¹/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: nau$^6$
*** Yale: nauh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: nau$^6$
*** Guangdong Romanization: neo$^6$
*** Sinological IPA : /nɐu̯²²/
* Southern Min
** (Hokkien)
*** Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lō͘
*** Tâi-lô: lōo
*** Phofsit Daibuun: lo
*** IPA (Xiamen): /lɔ²²/
*** IPA (Quanzhou): /lɔ⁴¹/
*** IPA (Zhangzhou): /lɔ²²/
*** IPA (Taipei): /lɔ³³/
*** IPA (Kaohsiung): /lɔ³³/
* Middle Chinese: nuwH, nowk
Rime :
| Character | 耨 | 耨 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| Initial (聲) | 泥 (8) | 泥 (8) |
| Final (韻) | 侯 (137) | 沃 (6) |
| Tone (調) | Departing (H) | Checked (Ø) |
| Openness (開合) | Open | Open |
| Division (等) | I | I |
| Fanqie | 奴豆切 | 内沃切 |
| Baxter | nuwH | nowk |
| Reconstructions |||
| Zhengzhang Shangfang | /nəu$^H$/ | /nuok̚/ |
| Pan Wuyun | /nəu$^H$/ | /nuok̚/ |
| Shao Rongfen | /nəu$^H$/ | /nok̚/ |
| Edwin Pulleyblank | /nəw$^H$/ | /nawk̚/ |
| Li Rong | /nu$^H$/ | /nok̚/ |
| Wang Li | /nəu$^H$/ | /nuok̚/ |
| Bernhard Karlgren | /nə̯u$^H$/ | /nuok̚/ |
| Expected Mandarin Reflex | nòu | nù |
| Expected Cantonese Reflex | nau$^6$ | nuk$^6$ |
* Old Chinese
    (Baxter–Sagart): /*nˤok-s/
    (Zhengzhang): /*noːɡs/, /*nuːɡ/
Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014) :
| Character | 耨 |
| Reading # | 1/1 |
| Modern Beijing (Pinyin) | nòu |
| Middle Chinese | ‹ nuw$^H$ › |
| Old Chinese | /*nˁok-s/ |
| English | to hoe, to weed |
| 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 | 耨 | 耨 |
| Reading # | 1/2 | 2/2 |
| No. | 10869 | 10875 |
| Phonetic component | 辱 | 辱 |
| Rime group | 候 | 覺 |
| Rime subdivision | 0 | 1 |
| Corresponding MC rime | 搙 | |
| Old Chinese | /*noːɡs/ | /*nuːɡ/ |

### Definitions

耨
* (historical, agriculture) an ancient tool for weeding similar to a hoe
* (literary) to hoe; to weed
* a surname

### Compounds

* 刀耕火耨
* 深耕易耨
* 火耕水耨
* 火耨刀耕
* 耒耨
* 耒耨之利
* 耒耨之教
* 耕耨
* 阿耨多羅 / 阿耨多罗 (ānòuduōluó)

## Japanese
### Kanji

(Hyōgai kanji)
* hoe, rake
* plough, plow
* kanji used to transliterate Buddhist terms borrowed from Sanskrit

#### Readings

From Middle Chinese 耨 (MC nuwH):
* Go-on: ぬ (nu)
* Kan-on: どう (dō)
* Kun: くわ (kuwa, 耨)
From Middle Chinese 耨 (MC nowk):
* Go-on: のく (noku)
* Kan-on: じょく (joku)
Readings shared by both kanji:
* Kun: くさぎる (kusagiru, 耨る)、すく (suku, 耨く)

#### Compounds

* 耨耕(じょくこう) (jokukō), 耨耕(じょっこう) (jokkō)
* 耨(じょく)農(のう) (jokunō)
* 耨耕(どうこう) (dōkō)
* 阿(あ)耨(のく)観音(かんのん) (Anoku Kannon)
* 阿(あ)耨(のく)達池(だっち) (Anokudatchi)
* 阿(あ)耨(のく)多羅(たら)三(さん)藐(みゃく)三菩(さんぼ)提(だい) (anokutara sanmyaku sanbodai)

## Korean
### Hanja

耨 • (nu) (hangeul 누, revised nu, McCune–Reischauer nu, Yale nwu)
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