耒

See also: 夫, 禾, 末, 天, 未, and 夭

耒	U+8012, 耒 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8012

← 耑
[U+8011]

CJK Unified Ideographs

耓 →
[U+8013]

⽾	U+2F7E, ⽾ KANGXI RADICAL PLOW

← ⽽
[U+2F7D]

Kangxi Radicals

⽿ →
[U+2F7F]

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

耒 (Kangxi radical 127, 耒+0, 6 strokes, cangjie input 手木 (QD), four-corner 5090₀, composition ⿻一未(GV) or ⿻丿未(HTJK) or ⿻丰𠆢)

Kangxi radical #127, ⽾.

Derived characters

Appendix:Chinese radical/耒
㑍, 洡, 䋘, 誄(诔), 銇, 䣂, 㼍, 頛(𬱜), 䒹, 筙

Additional Derived Characters

𠱤, 𡋃, 𡥤, 𭛧, 𢙩, 𢬗, 𤞖, 𬁻, 𣑳, 𤈞, 𫀇, 𥅦, 𥑶, 𥹯, 𧋆, 𨀤, 𫙛
𪵛, 𩳆, 𬦗, 𬩧, 𠓩, 𠛨, 𣢹, 𦫎, 𠬽, 𭫘

References

Kangxi Dictionary: page 962, character 16
Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 28898
Dae Jaweon: page 1410, character 15
Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2770, character 1
Unihan data for U+8012

Chinese

trad.		耒
simp. ^#		耒

Glyph origin 1

Historical forms of the character 耒
Western Zhou	Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series () (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
頛	*ruːlʔ
郲	rɯː, ruːlʔ, *ruːlʔ
耒	ruːls, rulʔ
銇	*ruːls
洡	*ruːls
誄	*rulʔ

Pictogram (象形) – a wooden bifurcated plow with originally three cross lines (彡 and 丯) for the furrows of the plow, later simplified to two. This character is sometimes known as "harrow", which is slightly different from a plow.

Etymology

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): lěi (lei³)

(Zhuyin): ㄌㄟˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): leoi⁶ / loi⁶
Hakka (Sixian, PFS): lói
Eastern Min (BUC): lô̤i
Puxian Min (Pouseng Ping'ing): luei⁵
Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): lúi / lūi

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: lěi
  - Zhuyin: ㄌㄟˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: lěi
  - Wade–Giles: lei³
  - Yale: lěi
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: leei
  - Palladius: лэй (lɛj)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /leɪ̯²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
  - Jyutping: leoi⁶ / loi⁶
  - Yale: leuih / loih
  - Cantonese Pinyin: loey⁶ / loi⁶
  - Guangdong Romanization: lêu⁶ / loi⁶
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /lɵy̯²²/, /lɔːi̯²²/
Hakka
- (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Neipu)
  - Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: lói
  - Hakka Romanization System: loi^ˋ
  - Hagfa Pinyim: loi³
  - Sinological IPA: /loi̯³¹/
Eastern Min
- (Fuzhou)
  - Bàng-uâ-cê: lô̤i
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /l̃ɔy²⁴²/
Puxian Min
- (Putian)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: luei⁵
  - Báⁿ-uā-ci̍: lōi
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /luei¹¹/
- (Xianyou)
  - Pouseng Ping'ing: luei⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /luei²¹/
Southern Min
- (Hokkien)
  - Pe̍h-ōe-jī: lúi / lūi
  - Tâi-lô: luí / luī
  - Phofsit Daibuun: luie, lui
  - IPA (Xiamen): /lui⁵³/, /lui²²/
  - IPA (Quanzhou): /lui⁵⁵⁴/, /lui⁴¹/
  - IPA (Zhangzhou): /lui⁵³/, /lui²²/
  - IPA (Taipei): /lui⁵³/, /lui³³/
  - IPA (Kaohsiung): /lui⁴¹/, /lui³³/

Middle Chinese: lwijX, lwojH

Rime
Character	耒	耒
Reading #	1/2	2/2
Initial (聲)	來 (37)	來 (37)
Final (韻)	脂 (16)	灰 (42)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)	Departing (H)
Openness (開合)	Closed	Closed
Division (等)	III	I
Fanqie	力軌切	盧對切
Baxter	lwijX	lwojH
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/liuɪ^X/	/luʌi^H/
Pan Wuyun	/lʷi^X/	/luoi^H/
Shao Rongfen	/ljuɪ^X/	/luɒi^H/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/lwi^X/	/lwəj^H/
Li Rong	/lui^X/	/luᴀi^H/
Wang Li	/lwi^X/	/luɒi^H/
Bernhard Karlgren	/lwi^X/	/luɑ̆i^H/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	lěi	lèi
Expected Cantonese Reflex	leoi⁵	leoi⁶

Old Chinese
(Zhengzhang): /*ruːls/, /*rulʔ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	耒	耒
Reading #	1/2	2/2
No.	7761	7764
Phonetic component
Rime group	微	微
Rime subdivision	2	2
Corresponding MC rime	纇	壘
Old Chinese	/*ruːls/	/*rulʔ/

Definitions

耒

handle of plow
plow

Glyph origin 2

Simplified from 來 (从 → 二).

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of 耒 – see 來 (“to come; to arrive; to happen; to occur; etc.”). (This character is the former (1969–1976) Singaporean simplified form of 來).
Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

References

莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “耒”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 134.

Japanese

Kanji

耒

(Hyōgai kanji)

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Readings

On (unclassified): らい (rai)、るい (rui)
Kun: すき (suki)

Korean

Hanja

耒 • (roe>noe) (hangeul 뢰>뇌, revised roe>noe, McCune–Reischauer roe>noe, Yale loy>noy)

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Vietnamese

Han character

耒: Hán Nôm readings: lỗi, lồi, doi, lọi, lội, lòi, rồi, ròi, lẫn, rổi, rỗi, rủi

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