火耕水耨

火耕水耨 in English

huǒ gēng shuǐ nòu: (idiom) An ancient, primitive farming method involving the burning of vegetation, followed by cultivation and weeding with water.

Character breakdown

火 huǒ fire
耕 gēng to plow
水 shuǐ water
耨 nòu hoe

Stroke order

Le caractère 火 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 火

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

Le caractère 水 tracé avec le numéro de chaque trait à son point de départ — Numbered strokes

Stroke-by-stroke animation of the character 水

Stroke data from Make Me a Hanzi, derived from the Arphic PL fonts under the Arphic Public License.

How it used to be written

火

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 11 forms

耕

Chu manuscripts 戰國.楚
Clerical script 東漢
See all 5 forms

水

Oracle bone script 商
Clerical script 東漢
See all 16 forms

Forms, sources and dates: the 字形演變 database of 小學堂, Academia Sinica, public domain (CC0).

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