Kanji Kaisen

漢字Kanji · in Nature & Elements

畑: farm, field

Also: garden, one's specialty

N3 (our estimate)9 strokesGrade 3Your ink: 白 Not met

火 and 田 carry the meaning

9 strokes

Three readings, and the words that use each

はたhata · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 畑作はたさくdry field farming, dry field crop
  • 田畑たはたrice fields and dry fields

はたけhatake · kun'yomi

  • 畑はたけdry fields

-ばたけ-batake · kun'yomi

  • 花畑はなばたけflower garden, flower bed
  • 段々畑だんだんばたけterraced fields, terraced farm
  • 桑畑くわばたけmulberry field; mulberry plantation

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

成り立ち

Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 畑.

Source: Wiktionary, 畑 (rev. 93449098), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Field (田) + fire (火). Represents a dry "field" created through the "fire" of clearing land (slash-and-burn), specifically used for crops that don't require flooded paddies.”
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
In ChineseMade in Japan, no Chinese counterpart

畑 is a kokuji, a kanji created in Japan. Chinese has no standard counterpart.

Unihan lists the reading tián for it.

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

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