粪 fèn manure
manure; dung; excrement
怎么记住“粪”: 米 rice + 共 collectively = manure. To grow better rice, the whole village works collectively one Saturday, spreading cart after cart of smelly manure.
部件结构
象形 · Pictogram
originally 釆 + 𠦒 + 廾
A drawing of the thing it means.
粪 = 米 rice + 共 collectively
- 米 rice shape only
- 共 collectively shape only
- 龷 bacon rashers
- 八 eight
To grow better rice, the whole village works collectively one Saturday, spreading cart after cart of smelly manure.
How it came to be
The oracle bone form is a picture with two hands and three dots; today's full form comes from the small seal form.
用法
- Excrement/dung/manure: 粪便 (fènbiàn) feces/excrement, 大粪 (dàfèn) night soil, 牛粪 (niúfèn) cow dung, 施粪 to manure.
- 粪土 (fèntǔ) means dirt/muck, used to mean 'worthless': 视金钱如粪土 (shì jīnqián rú fèntǔ) to regard money as dirt.