穡

穡 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+13, 18 strokes, cangjie input 竹木土人田 (HDGOW), four-corner 2496₁, composition ⿰禾嗇)

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 860, character 42
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25325
• Dae Jaweon: page 1287, character 4
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2634, character 5
• Unihan data for U+7A61

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *srɯɡ): semantic 禾 (“cereal; grain”) + phonetic 嗇 (OC *srɯɡ). Specialization of 嗇 (OC *srɯɡ).

Probably related to 采 (OC *s.r̥ˤəʔ, “to pluck”) (Baxter, 1992; Sagart, 1999; Baxter and Sagart, 2014). See there for more.

Schuessler (2007) compares it to Proto-Lolo-Burmese *C-šak (“to pluck; to pick (a fruit, etc.)”), as well as Khmer ច្រូត (crout, “to reap; to harvest”).

穡

1. to harvest; to reap
2. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) harvest; crops
3. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to plant crops; to cultivate; to work on a farm
4. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) ear of grain
5. (literary or Hokkien) farming; farm labour
6. (Hokkien) work; labour (in general)
7. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) to link together; to connect; to hook together

穡

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 嗇 / 啬 (sè, “to cherish; to not waste”)

穡

1. (obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) alternative form of 㱇 (“anxious; distressed; sorrowful”)

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. harvest

• On (unclassified): しょく (shoku)
• Kun: とりいれ (torīre)

穡 • (saek) (hangeul 색, revised saek, McCune–Reischauer saek, Yale sayk)

1. farm, harvest grain
2. stingy

穡: Hán Nôm readings: sắc

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