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野: plains, field

Also: rustic, civilian life

JLPT N411 strokesGrade 2Your ink: 白 Not met

里 carries the meaning · 予 gives the sound

11 strokes

Two readings, and the words that use each

ヤya · on'yomi · in compounds

  • 野球やきゅうbaseball
  • 野菜やさいvegetable
  • 野党やとうopposition party
  • 平野へいやplain
  • 分野ぶんやfield
  • 視野しやfield of vision

のno · kun'yomi · on its own

  • 野原のはらfield

Special readingsThese words are read as a whole, not from the readings above.

  • 野良犬のらいぬstray dog

Also read ショ, の-, with no example words in our sources. Words: Kanji alive, CC BY 4.0.

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Where it comes from

Origin · sourced

Phono-semantic compound (形聲)田 field (meaning) + 土 earth (meaning) + 予 (sound)

Source: Wiktionary, 野 (rev. 92917761), CC BY-SA 4.0

Memory story · made up to help you remember

“Village/distance (里) + offer/give. Originally suggested the open "fields" or "plains" that stretched out beyond the village where crops were grown.”
From the 里 village story
繋がり
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
里

Also built on village (里)

All 9
予

Also built on beforehand (予)

The 予 family reads ヨ (yo); 野 is read ヤ、ショ.

Also read ヤ

6 kanji share this on'yomi

Also read ショ

15 kanji share this on'yomiAll 15

Easy to confuse

The difference, side by side
野 plains · 里 + 予
vs動 move · 重 + 力
野 has 里 + 予 where 動 has 重 + 力.
In ChineseSame character in simplified and traditional · yě

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

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

Pinyin yě 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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