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It refers to a farming tool called a plow used for tilling farmland or cutting weeds, or sometimes just the handle of such a tool. The plow is a tool used for digging up or turning over soil.

According to the Shuowen Jiezi (Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters), the character depicts 木 (wood) and 丯, which represents weeds, being tilled and overturned.

In older dictionaries, its pronunciation was sometimes recorded as "janggi roe," where "janggi" is an old term for "plow."

When used as a radical indicating meaning, it conveys ideas related to farming tools or cultivation and is placed on the side (usually as a side radical).