耦

耦	U+8026, 耦 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-8026

← 耥
[U+8025]

CJK Unified Ideographs

耧 →
[U+8027]

Translingual

Han character

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

plow side by side
team of two

Derived characters

𡂮, 𡫢, 藕, 𥨱, 𬕽

References

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

Chinese

trad.		耦
simp. ^#		耦

Glyph origin

Characters in the same phonetic series (禺) (Zhengzhang, 2003)

	Old Chinese
齵	ŋoː, ŋo
偶	ŋoːʔ, ŋoːs
耦	*ŋoːʔ
藕	*ŋoːʔ
髃	ŋoːʔ, ŋo
蕅	*ŋoːʔ
愚	*ŋo
隅	*ŋo
禺	ŋo, ŋos
湡	*ŋo
堣	*ŋo
嵎	*ŋo
鰅	ŋo, ŋoŋ
鍝	*ŋo
遇	*ŋos
寓	*ŋos
庽	*ŋos
媀	*ŋos
喁	*ŋoŋ
顒	*ŋoŋ

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

Pronunciation

Mandarin
(Pinyin): ǒu (ou³)

(Zhuyin): ㄡˇ
Cantonese (Jyutping): ngau⁵

Mandarin
- (Standard Chinese)⁺
  - Hanyu Pinyin: ǒu
  - Zhuyin: ㄡˇ
  - Tongyong Pinyin: ǒu
  - Wade–Giles: ou³
  - Yale: ǒu
  - Gwoyeu Romatzyh: oou
  - Palladius: оу (ou)
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ˀoʊ̯²¹⁴/
Cantonese
- (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
  - Jyutping: ngau⁵
  - Yale: ngáuh
  - Cantonese Pinyin: ngau⁵
  - Guangdong Romanization: ngeo⁵
  - Sinological IPA ^(key): /ŋɐu̯¹³/

Middle Chinese: nguwX

Rime
Character	耦
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	疑 (31)
Final (韻)	侯 (137)
Tone (調)	Rising (X)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	I
Fanqie	五口切
Baxter	nguwX
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ŋəu^X/
Pan Wuyun	/ŋəu^X/
Shao Rongfen	/ŋəu^X/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ŋəw^X/
Li Rong	/ŋu^X/
Wang Li	/ŋəu^X/
Bernard Karlgren	/ŋə̯u^X/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	ǒu
Expected Cantonese Reflex	ngau⁵

Old Chinese
(Baxter–Sagart): /*ŋˤ(r)oʔ/

(Zhengzhang): /*ŋoːʔ/

Baxter–Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	耦
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	ǒu
Middle Chinese	‹ nguw^X ›
Old Chinese	/*ŋˁ(r)oʔ/
English	pair (n.)
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter–Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. [t] as coda may in fact be -t or -p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	耦
Reading #	1/1
No.	15914
Phonetic component	禺
Rime group	侯
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	藕
Old Chinese	/*ŋoːʔ/

Definitions

耦

(archaic) to plow side-by-side
pair; couple (two humans as a unit)
- 長沮、桀溺耦而耕，孔子過之，使子路問津焉。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
  长沮、桀溺耦而耕，孔子过之，使子路问津焉。 [Classical Chinese, 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.
Alternative form of 偶 (ǒu, “match; pair; couple; even; etc.”)

Compounds

二五耦
佳耦
嘉耦
妃耦 (pèi'ǒu)
對耦／对耦
怨耦
睠以佳耦
耦合 (ǒuhé)
耦耕
耦語／耦语
齊大非耦／齐大非耦

Japanese

Kanji

耦

(uncommon “Hyōgai” kanji)

plow side by side
team of two

Readings

On (unclassified): ごう (gō); ぐ (gu); ぐう (gū)

Korean

Hanja

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

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