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耪 refers to the agricultural work of loosening soil, weeding, or cultivating the earth with a hand tool. The character is composed of the semantic radical 耒, a depiction of an ancient wooden plow that anchors it in the farming domain, and the phonetic component 旁, which supplies its pronunciation. It describes the manual breaking up of compacted dirt around crops to improve aeration and water absorption, and appears mainly in rural dialects and texts about traditional soil cultivation.
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