秧 yāng shoots
shoots; sprouts
怎么记住“秧”: 禾 grain + 央 center = shoots. The farmer carries a tray of young grain to the center of the flooded field and plants the green shoots one by one.
部件结构
形声 · Meaning + sound
One part gives the meaning, the other gives the sound.
秧 = 禾 grain + 央 center
- 禾 grain meaning
- 央 center sound
The farmer carries a tray of young grain to the center of the flooded field and plants the green shoots one by one.
How it came to be
Grain gives the meaning and the sign for center the sound; the word means young rice plants.
用法
- Rice seedlings / young sprouts: 秧苗 (yāngmiáo) seedlings, 插秧 (chā yāng) to transplant rice seedlings, 育秧 (yù yāng) to raise seedlings.
- 秧歌 (yāngge) is a lively folk dance originally tied to rice-planting. Agricultural vocabulary.