畴 chóu field
field; farmland; class; category
怎么记住“畴”: 田 field + 寿 old age = field. Grandpa has worked the same field since he was a boy, and even in old age he walks each morning across his beloved field.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
畴 = 田 field + 寿 old age
- 田 field meaning
- 寿 old age sound
Grandpa has worked the same field since he was a boy, and even in old age he walks each morning across his beloved field.
How it came to be
The field gives the meaning and old age the sound; the word means farmland.
用法
- Farmland, and category/class, chiefly 范畴 (fànchóu): a category/domain/scope: 属于哲学范畴 (shǔyú zhéxué fànchóu) falling within the domain of philosophy.
- 田畴 (tiánchóu) means (poetically) fields. Formal/abstract in the 范畴 sense.