字の旅3,000 years in four forms
Oracle bone · ShangShang · c. 1200 BCE菁1.1 合6057 賓組
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.
部首Radical · in Nature & Elements
田 rice paddy
た ta
5 strokesRadical of 15 kanjiPart of 25
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. This radical represents the hard work of the farmer, the bounty of the earth, and the organized structure of agricultural society. When you see it, think of wealth, land, and the rhythmic cycle of the planting and harvest seasons.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates rice fields, land, agricultural work, physical strength (man in the field), wealth, and the organization of space for production.
What it grows into
- 男maleダン · おとこ
田 + 力
Man providing the strength for agricultural and/or other kinds of (physical) labour on a field.
Ideogrammic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
- 畜livestockチク
- 番turnバン · つがい
Every kanji with 田 as its radical
All 15 kanji