糞

fèn

manure, dung, night soil

Meaning

  • Concrete: Excrement, dung, night soil.
  • Agricultural: Manure or fertilizer; in agrarian contexts, denoting a resource rather than a pollutant.
  • Metaphorical/Polemic: Material that is worthless, discarded, or contemptible; used to describe ideas or speech as visceral "waste."

Grammar and usage

  • Noun: The substance itself.
  • Verb: To defecate; alternatively, in technical agricultural texts, to apply manure or fertilize the soil.

History and forms

  • Simplified variant: U+7CAA (粪).

Translator notes

The translation depends on whether the glyph treats the substance as a biological byproduct, a productive resource, or a value judgment. The distinction between "dung" (waste) and "manure" (input) is determined by the surrounding technical or agricultural vocabulary.

Decontextualized translator aid. This page describes plausible lexical range; it does not choose what the glyph means in a particular passage.