稼

稼 U+7A3C, 稼 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A3C ← 稻 [U+7A3B] CJK Unified Ideographs 稽 → [U+7A3D]

稼 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+10, 15 strokes, cangjie input 竹木十一人 (HDJMO), four-corner 2393₂, composition ⿰禾家)

1. sow grain
2. sheaves of grain

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 857, character 30
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25217
• Dae Jaweon: page 1283, character 10
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2626, character 8
• Unihan data for U+7A3C

simp. and trad.		稼

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kraːs) : semantic 禾 + phonetic 家 (OC *kraː).

Compare Proto-Tai *klaːꟲ (“seedling; rice”), Proto-Kam-Sui *kla³ (“rice seedling”), though the medials do not agree (Schuessler, 2007).

稼

1. to sow; to plant; to cultivate

   • 不稼不穡，胡取禾三百廛兮？ [Pre-Classical Chinese, trad.]
     不稼不穑，胡取禾三百廛兮？ [Pre-Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: The Classic of Poetry, c. 11^th – 7^th centuries BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

     Bù jià bù sè, hú qǔ hé sānbǎi chán xī? [Pinyin]

     You sow not nor reap; -
     How do you get the produce of those three hundred farms?

2. grain; cereal; crop

• “稼”, 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), “稼”, in 莆仙方言文读字汇 [Puxian Dialect Literary Reading Dictionary] (overall work in Mandarin and Puxian Min), page 103.

(Jōyō kanji)

1. to earn
2. earning, earnings
3. working, operation

• Go-on: け (ke)
• Kan-on: か (ka, Jōyō)
• Kun: かせぐ (kasegu, 稼ぐ, Jōyō)、みのり (minori, 稼り)、うえる (ueru, 稼える)

From Middle Chinese 稼 (MC kaeH). Recorded as Middle Korean 가〯 (kǎ) (Yale: kǎ) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

• (SK Standard/Seoul) IPA^(key): [ka̠]
• Phonetic hangul: [가]

Wikisource

稼 (eumhun 심을 가 (simeul ga))

1. hanja form^? of 가 (“work”)

• 국제퇴계학회 대구경북지부 (國際退溪學會 大邱慶北支部) (2007). Digital Hanja Dictionary, 전자사전／電子字典. [2]

稼 (transliteration needed)

1. Nôm form of chả (“riceseedlings”).

Lục Văn Pảo, Hoàng Tuấn Nam (2003) Hoàng Triều Ân, editor, Từ điển chữ Nôm Tày [A Dictionary of (chữ) Nôm Tày]‎^[3] (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản Khoa học Xã hội

稼: Hán Nôm readings: giá, cấy

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