畝

畝 (Kangxi radical 102, 田+5, 10 strokes, cangjie input 卜田弓人 (YWNO), four-corner 0768₀, composition ⿰亩久)

• KangXi: page 761, character 14
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21815
• Dae Jaweon: page 1171, character 6
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2538, character 3
• Unihan data for U+755D

Composed of 田 (tián, “cropland”) + 十 (shí, “ten”) + 久 (jiǔ, “longlasting”).

The 十 (shí) + 久 (jiǔ) has been a shape change from earlier 每 (OC *mɯːʔ). (Lin Yiguang)

Possibly Sino-Tibetan. Compare Tibetan རྨོ (rmo), རྨོས (rmos, “to plow”), རྨོད (rmod, “plowing”), རྨོན་པ (rmon pa, “plow-ox”), Karbi [Term?] (-mò, “classifier for strips of fields”) (Bodman, 1980; Baxter, 1992; Schuessler, 2007).

Schuessler (2007) also suggests a connection to an Austroasiatic root, whence Old Khmer cval (“to enter; to penetrate; (of animals) to copulate”), Khmu [script needed] (cmɔɔl, “to plant (rice) with a digging stick”), [script needed] (crmɔɔl, “digging stick”) (cf. Ferlus, 1987). The semantic development would be “digging stick” > “plowing” > “mu”. He also connects this to 牡 (OC *mɯwʔ, “male animal”); see there for more.

畝

1. mu (a Chinese measuring unit currently equivalent to 666 and 2/3 meters squared in Mainland China)
2. (Classical Chinese) cropland

   • 曰：「老人老，孤人孤，病者養，死者葬，男子畝，婦人桑，之謂思。」 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     曰：“老人老，孤人孤，病者养，死者葬，男子亩，妇人桑，之谓思。” [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: Yang Xiong, Fa Yan (Exemplary Sayings), 9 CE

     Yuē: “Lǎorén lǎo, gūrén gū, bìngzhě yǎng, sǐzhě zàng, nánzǐ mǔ, fùrén sāng, zhī wèi sī.” [Pinyin]

     Yangzi said: Treat the elderly as elderly, treat orphans as orphans; nourish the sick and bury the dead; let men tend their croplands and let women tend the mulberry trees —you will be referred to as "cherished."

• Chinese units of measurement on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

(common “Jōyō” kanji)

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• Go-on: む (mu); も (mo)
• Kan-on: ぼう (bō)
• Kan’yō-on: ほ (ho)
• Kun: うね (une, 畝, Jōyō); せ (se, 畝)

• (Tokyo) ほ​ [hóꜜ] (Atamadaka – [1])[1]
• IPA^(key): [ho̞]

畝(ほ) • (ho) 

1. mu (Chinese unit of surface area)

Different from the Japanese 畝 (se, “se”).

From Middle Chinese 畝 (MC məu^X). Recorded as Middle Korean 畒/모〯 (mwǒ) (Yale: mwo) in Hunmong Jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527.

Wikisource 畝 (eumhun 이랑 무 (irang mu))
畝 (eumhun 이랑 묘 (irang myo))

1. Hanja form^? of 무/묘 (“mu (Chinese unit of surface area)”).

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

畝: Hán Nôm readings: mẩu, mẫu

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