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
田 rice paddy
たへん tahen
5 strokesRadical of 2 kanjiPart of 25
Your ink in 田0% painted · 0 of 2 familiar
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
“Grounding on the left! When the rice field moves to the side, it sets the stage for characters related to strategies, boundaries, and the literal soil we walk on. Imagine a row of well-tended fields lining the path. It represents the starting point for organize labor and the careful planning required to manage a great estate.”
Where it sits in a kanji
Indicates agricultural strategies, boundaries, territory, land-based labor, or the concept of something being "abbreviated" (like a map of fields).
育つ
What it grows into
Built from 田, with sourced origins
- 略abbreviationリャク · ほぼ
- 町townチョウ · まち
田 + 丁sound
Phono-semantic compound · Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
一覧
Every kanji with 田 as its radical
Most used first
Ink shades, lightest to darkest: 白 Not met, 淡 Met, 中 Learning, 濃 Familiar, 印 Mastered
All 2 kanji