耕 — till, plow, cultivate

こう耕 till

Grade 5 Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 10 strokes

U+8015 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1568 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #1949 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

Meanings

till
plow
cultivate

word

こう kou On'yomi On'yomi (音読み) — the Sino-Japanese reading, derived from Chinese pronunciation. Most commonly used in compound words (jukugo).

耕(こう) kou cultivation 耕(こう) 作(さく) kousaku farming

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

耒 plow

い井 well

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#127 耒 plow