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.