農 means “farming, agriculture”

のう · nou

Also: farmers

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ノウ

JLPT N2 · Taught in grade 3 · 13 strokes

The story

Picture furrows bending (曲) across a field, above 辰, which early script drew as a weeding tool, thought to be a sharpened clam shell. 農業 is farming, and the JA signs across rural Japan mark 農協, the farmers' co-op.

Used in 農業 (nougyou, agriculture), 農家 (nouka, farming household), and 農村 (nouson, farming village)

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Readings from KANJIDIC2, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA.