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plow
Etymology
Pictograph of a farming tool used to make furrows in the ground.
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耒 is a pictograph of an ancient wooden farming tool used to make furrows in the ground. Its strokes depict the forked prongs of this implement. It functions as a semantic radical in many characters related to agriculture, including 耕 (to plow) and 耙 (rake). When used independently, 耒 means the tool itself or a plow's handle, and it anchors a semantic field of cultivation and farm labor.
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