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Jyutping gang1
Pinyin gēng

Definitions (CC-CANTO)
  1. to plow/to till/to cultivate/to make a living/to work hard on

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Jyutping gaang1
Pinyin gēng

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. to plow
  2. to till
Definitions (CC-CANTO)
  1. to plow/to till/to cultivate/to make a living/to work hard on
Definitions (粵典–words.hk)
  1. 動詞
    將​泥土​翻​鬆​,​準備​播種
    to plough
    • 你返鄉下耕田啦!
      你返乡下耕田啦!
      Go back to your home town and plough the field!
Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. character, literally
    to plow; to till
  2. character, figuratively
    to undertake; to work
    • 筆耕
      笔耕
      bǐ gēng
      to engage in writing
Definitions (Unihan)
  1. plow, cultivate
  2. Cangjie Input
    QDTT
Definitions (HSK3.0)
  1. HSK3 七一九级汉字表 #284
Examples (Tatoeba—Mandarin-English)
  1. Mandarin
    我耕田。
    我耕田。
    wǒ gēng tián 。
    • I till the earth.
  2. Mandarin
    农夫们在田地里忙碌地耕种。
    農夫們在田地裏忙碌地耕種。
    nóng fū men zài tián dì lǐ máng lù dì gēng zhòng 。
    • Farmers are busy working in the field.
  3. Mandarin
    一分耕耘,一分收获。
    一分耕耘,一分收穫。
    yī fēn gēng yún , yī fēn shōu huò 。
    • No pain, no gain.
    • No sweet without sweat.
    • You can't get ahead if you don't work hard.
    • No pain no gain.
  4. Mandarin
    俗话说:一分耕耘、一分收获;可俗话又说:人无横财不富、马无夜草不肥!
    俗話說:一分耕耘、一分收穫;可俗話又說:人無橫財不富、馬無夜草不肥!
    sú huà shuō : yī fēn gēng yún 、 yī fēn shōu huò ; kě sú huà yòu shuō : rén wú hèng cái bù fù 、 mǎ wú yè cǎo bù féi !
    • As the saying goes, "You reap what you sow", and yet another says that luck plays an important role in success too!
  5. Mandarin
    我在耕地。
    我在耕地。
    wǒ zài gēng dì 。
    • I am plowing my land.
Examples (粵典–words.hk)
  1. Cantonese
    默默耕耘
    默默耕耘
    mak6 mak6 gaang1 wan4
    • to work hard silently
  2. Cantonese
    佢生活喺农家,每日好早起身耕田。
    佢生活喺農家,每日好早起身耕田。
    keoi5 sang1 wut6 hai2 nung4 gaa1, mui5 jat6 hou2 zou2 hei2 san1 gaang1 tin4.
    • His family farms for a living. He wakes up early to work the fields every day.
  3. Cantonese
    阿婶,你都系返乡下耕田算啦!
    阿嬸,你都係返鄉下耕田算啦!
    aa3 sam2, nei5 dou1 hai6 faan1 hoeng1 haa5 gaang1 tin4 syun3 laa1!
    • You might as well go tend the fields instead, old hag!
  4. Cantonese
    荒废咗嘅耕地
    荒廢咗嘅耕地
    fong1 fai3 zo2 ge3 gaang1 dei6
    • abandoned farmland
  5. Cantonese
    我哋嘅义工系真正默默耕耘,劳苦功高,有心有力。
    我哋嘅義工係真正默默耕耘,勞苦功高,有心有力。
    • X
Examples (None)
  1. 《墨子.尚贤下》:「是故昔者舜耕于历山,陶于河濒。
    《墨子.尚賢下》:「是故昔者舜耕於歷山,陶於河瀕。
Examples (Wiktionary)
  1. Mandarin
    笔耕
    筆耕
    bǐ gēng
    • to engage in writing
  2. Mandarin
    一群朋友郊游,我领头在狭窄的阡陌上走,怎料迎面来了几头耕牛,狭道容不下人和牛,终有一方要让路。
    一羣朋友郊遊,我領頭在狹窄的阡陌上走,怎料迎面來了幾頭耕牛,狹道容不下人和牛,終有一方要讓路。
    yī qún péng you jiāo yóu , wǒ lǐng tóu zài xiá zhǎi de qiān mò shàng zǒu , zěn liào yíng miàn lái le jǐ tóu gēng niú , xiá dào róng bù xià rén hé niú , zhōng yǒu yī fāng yào ràng lù .
    • A group of friends went for an outing and I was leading them through the narrow crisscrossing footpaths between fields. No one would have expected that there would be several oxen in our path and that the path wasn't big enough for both man and ox: in the end, one side would be forced to make way for the other.
  3. Mandarin
    自耕农和手工业主所经营的,都是小生产的经济。
    自耕農和手工業主所經營的,都是小生產的經濟。
    zì gēng nóng hé shǒu gōng yè zhǔ suǒ jīng yíng de , dōu shì xiǎo shēng chǎn de jīng jì .
    • The owner-peasants and the master handicraftspeople are both engaged in small-scale production.
  4. Mandarin
    这个共和国将采取某种必要的方法,没收地主的土地,分配给无地和少地的农民,实行中山先生“耕者有其田”的口号。
    這個共和國將採取某種必要的方法,沒收地主的土地,分配給無地和少地的農民,實行中山先生“耕者有其田”的口號。
    zhè ge gòng hé guó jiāng cǎi qǔ mǒu zhǒng bì yào de fāng fǎ , mò shōu dì zhǔ de tǔ dì , fēn pèi gěi wú dì hé shǎo dì de nóng mín , shí xíng zhōng shān xiān shēng “ gēng zhě yǒu qí tián ” de kǒu hào .
    • The republic will take certain necessary steps to confiscate the land of the landlords and distribute it to those peasants having little or no land, carry out Dr. Sun Yat-sen's slogan of "land to the tiller".