稼 jià crops
How to remember 稼: 禾 grain + 家 home = crops. After a long day in the grain fields, the farmer walks home and tells his wife how well the crops are growing.
Component breakdown
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
稼 = 禾 grain + 家 home
- 禾 grain meaning
- 家 home sound
- 宀 roof
- 豕 pig
After a long day in the grain fields, the farmer walks home and tells his wife how well the crops are growing.
How it came to be
The grain gives the meaning and the home gives the sound.
How it is used
- Crops/to sow: bound in 庄稼 (zhuāngjia), the everyday word for (field) crops.
- 庄稼 = growing farm crops: 种庄稼 (zhòng zhuāngjia) to grow crops, 庄稼地 cropland.
- 耕稼 = farming/tillage (literary).
- Almost exclusively appears in 庄稼; 稼 alone is archaic.