耦

耦 (Kangxi radical 127, 耒+9, 15 strokes, cangjie input 手木田中月 (QDWLB), four-corner 5692₇, composition ⿰耒禺)

1. plow side by side
2. team of two

• 𡂮, 𡫢, 藕, 𥨱, 𬕽

• 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

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *ŋoːʔ): semantic 耒 (“tilling tool”) + phonetic 禺 (OC *ŋo, *ŋos), paired working in the fields.

耦

1. (archaic) to plow side-by-side
2. pair; couple (two humans as a unit)

   • 長沮、桀溺耦而耕，孔子過之，使子路問津焉。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, trad.]
     长沮、桀溺耦而耕，孔子过之，使子路问津焉。 [Traditional Chinese poetry, simp.]

     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.

3. alternative form of 偶 (ǒu, “match; pair; couple; even; etc.”)

• “耦”, in 漢語多功能字庫 (Multi-function Chinese Character Database)‎^[1], 香港中文大學 (the Chinese University of Hong Kong), 2014–
• 莆田市荔城区档案馆 [Putian City Licheng District Archives], editor (2022), “耦”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 169.

(Hyōgai kanji)

1. plow side by side
2. team of two

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

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

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