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
稼 = 禾 grain + 家 home
- 禾 grain
- 家 home
- 宀 house
- 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 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.