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漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

田: rice field, rice paddy

JLPT N45 strokesGrade 1Your ink: 白 Not met
5 strokes
  • Oracle bone · Shang
  • Bronze · Western Zhou
  • Small seal · Qin
  • Today

Oracle bone and bronze: Wikimedia Commons, traced from Academia Sinica, CC0. Small seal: Academia Sinica 小學堂, CC0. Today’s form: KanjiVG, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Two readings, and the words that use each

デンden · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 水田すいでんrice field
  • 田園でんえんrural area
  • 上田じょうでんhigh rice field; very fertile rice field
  • 油田ゆでんoil field

たta · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 田んぼたんぼrice field
  • 田植えたうえrice planting
  • 松田まつだMatsuda (surname)
  • 田たrice field

Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0 · JMdict, EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Print sheet Present
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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Pictogram (象形)

Pictographic representation of a field divided into four sections. See the original version of 甫 and 里.

Source: Wiktionary, 田 (rev. 93549154), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“The lifeblood of the village! Imagine a patchwork of green rice fields stretching across a fertile valley.”
More in the 田 rice paddy story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered

田 gives its sound to

Sound parts: KanjiVG.

Also read デン

5 kanji share this on'yomi

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
田 rice field
vs由 wherefore
Compare the two shapes stroke by stroke.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · tián

Same form: 田 is written the same way in mainland China (simplified) and in Taiwan and Hong Kong (traditional).

Simplified
田 mainland China, Singapore
Traditional
田 Taiwan, Hong Kong

Pinyin tián most common reading

Forms and pinyin: Unicode Unihan database (Unicode License v3). Pinyin lists the most common reading, not every reading.

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