男
nán · HSK 1
male
👨 男 = 田 (field) + 力 (strength) — the one who works the fields
Classic compound: 田 means rice field and 力 means strength or labor. In ancient agrarian China, the character for man depicted the field-worker. Pronounced nán, rhymes with the start of nun.
男 — field 田 + strength/plow 力
男 is a compound ideograph combining 田 (field) above 力 (strength, originally a picture of a plow). It depicted the one who works the fields with a plow, i.e. a male laborer, and by extension came to mean 'man' or 'male' in general.