農耕
のうこう · noukou · JLPT N1 · noun
agriculture
🌾 農 = farm, 耕 = plow: 農耕 = farming by plowing and tilling the land
耕 (kou) means to plow or till soil, and 農 (nou) means farm or agriculture. Together they name the whole practice of tilling land and growing crops.
耕 — plow 耒 + well 井
耕 is a semantic compound. The left side 耒 depicts an ancient wooden plow, and the right side 井 (a well, also suggesting the grid of a 'well-field' land system) hints at cultivated fields. Together they mean to plow or till the land for farming.