穫
harvest, reap
Readings
On'yomi
- カク
Kun'yomi
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Meaning
穫 centers on gathering crops: the act of harvesting or reaping what has been grown.
Most common words using 穫
- 収穫しゅうかくN3
harvest; crop; ingathering
- 予想収穫高よそうしゅうかくだか
crop estimate
- 収穫アリしゅうかくあり
harvester ant
- 収穫予想しゅうかくよそう
crop estimate
- 収穫感謝祭しゅうかくかんしゃさい
Thanksgiving Day; harvest festival
- 収穫時しゅうかくじ
time of harvest
- 収穫期しゅうかくき
harvest time
- 収穫物しゅうかくぶつ
harvest; crop; yield
- 収穫祭しゅうかくさい
harvest festival
- 収穫逓減しゅうかくていげん
diminishing returns
- 収穫逓減の法則しゅうかくていげんのほうそく
law of diminishing returns; law of diminishing marginal returns
- 収穫高しゅうかくだか
crop; income
- 穫るとる
to harvest (a crop)
- 穫れるとれる
to be harvested; to be picked
- 規模に関する収穫きぼにかんするしゅうかく
returns to scale
Study
Etymology
穫 combines 禾 (grain) with 蒦, which likely contributes the sound and relates to measuring or obtaining, together suggesting the gathering of grain.
Meaning mnemonic
The left side 禾 is grain, and the right side 蒦 looks like a hand holding a tool over plants. Picture a farmer reaping grain with a sickle: that's the harvest.
Reading mnemonic
For カク, imagine a harvest festival where everyone wears a cocky hat made of grain stalks: cock -> カク, and the grain is being reaped.