佃农 (diàn nóng) — tenant farmer; sharecropper

Definition

佃农 (diànnóng) is a historical term for a farmer who rents land from a landlord and pays rent or a share of the crop — used in historical, literary, and political-economy contexts, not in everyday modern speech.

noun
tenant farmersharecropper
Measure word · 个

Examples

  • ，佃农。
    Zài gǔ dài, diàn nóng yào xiàng dì zhǔ jiāo zū.
    In ancient times, tenant farmers had to pay rent to the landlord.
  • 佃农。
    Zhè xiē diàn nóng de shēng huó fēi cháng jiān kǔ.
    The lives of these tenant farmers were very hard.
  • ，佃农。
    Gǎi gé hòu, diàn nóng biàn chéng le tǔ dì de zhǔ rén.
    After the reform, tenant farmers became the owners of the land.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

佃diànrent/tenant
农nóngfarmer

佃 refers to renting land, and 农 means farmer, so together they name a farmer who works rented land.

Characters in this word

No reliable origin is recorded for this character.

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Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 農; 农 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 農 comes from 林 (vegetation) and 辰 (a hoe), showing a hoe among vegetation to remove weeds; the simplified 农 is a later abbreviation.

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