耒 Radical 127 — a plough; a wooden farming tool with a forked handle
lěi (third tone, dipping)
a plough; a wooden farming tool with a forked handle
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Where the shape comes from
A forked wooden plough, the handle branching at the top into the grip a farmer’s hands would close around, the curved share below it breaking the soil. Set beside 井, a well, or the grid lines of a field, it gives 耕, to plough, to cultivate, the plough shown at work on land marked out in squares.
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