Amazing Chinese characters (674) Plow - 耕

 The big seal script of character Plow is

The left is character Rake, the right is character Well, the dot in the middle of the square is an indicative to tell where the character means: here, the water in bottom of the middle of the well. Plow the field near wells to make sure, you have enough water to irrigate the grain crops. It also means that people raise rice because rice needs a lot of water. The 耒 is a rake, used in rice field to flat the field.

The small seal script of character Plow is

Similar to big seal script.

The clerical script of character Plow is

Similar to older scripts, except the left curve stroke disappeared, the right dot in the square disappeared. 

The Pinyin of the character is Gen1.