亩
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mu, Chinese unit of area equal to 1; 15 hectare (about 667 square meters)
- HSK 3.0
- Level 7–9
- Strokes
- 7
- Radical
- 亠 +5
- Structure
- Top–bottom 上下
- Traditional
- 畝
- Common rank
- #3,220
- Unicode
- U+4EA9
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Formation & memory
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How to remember it
Chinese acre · Heisig RSH #324
田 rice field + top hat
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 亩
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 一亩三分地 | a piece of land of 1.3 mu 畝|亩[mu3]; (fig.) one's turf | |
| 地亩 | area of farmland | |
| 公亩 | are (1 are = 1⁄100 hectare, or 100 m²) | |
| 亩产 | agricultural yield per "mu" 畝|亩[mu3] | |
| 田亩 | field | |
| 英亩 | acre |