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Kotomora

田

rice field, rice paddy

JLPTN4StatusJōyō · grade 1FrequencyTop 100Strokes5

Readings

On'yomi

  • デン

Kun'yomi

  • た

Nanori

  • いなか
  • おか
  • たん
  • で
  • とう
  • や

Meaning

田 centers on a cultivated plot of land for growing rice: a rice field or paddy. The meaning is concrete and specific to flooded agricultural fields.

Most common words using 田

20 of 320
  • 田舎いなか
    N5

    rural area; countryside; the sticks

  • 秋田あきた

    Akita (city, prefecture)

  • 田た
    N3

    rice field

  • 本田ほんでん

    rice paddy

  • 上田じょうでん

    high rice field; very fertile rice field

  • 神田しんでん

    field affiliated with a shrine (the tax-exempt proceeds of its harvest going to pay for shrine operations)

  • 真田さなだ

    plait; braid

  • 稲田いなだ

    paddy field; rice field

  • 半田はんだ

    solder; pewter

  • 島田しまだ

    pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure

  • 平田ひらた

    rice field on flat land; unterraced paddy

  • 新田しんでん

    new rice field; newly developed rice field

  • 早稲田わせだ

    field of early-blooming (or ripening) rice

  • 田んぼたんぼ
    N2

    rice field; rice paddy; paddy field

  • 小田おだ

    rice field (usu. small)

  • 深田ふかだ

    muddy rice field

  • 早稲田大学わせだだいがく

    Waseda University

  • 桑田そうでん

    mulberry plantation

  • 水田すいでん
    N1

    (water-filled) paddy field

  • 田畑たはた
    N1

    fields (of rice and other crops)

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Study

Etymology

田 is a pictograph of a rice field divided into sections by paths or ridges. The modern form preserves the grid-like layout clearly.

Meaning mnemonic

The four outer lines form the boundaries of a field, and the inner cross divides it into smaller plots. Picture a bird's-eye view of a rice paddy: 田 is a rice field.

Reading mnemonic

For デン, imagine a den of farmers resting beside their rice field after a long day: den -> デン, and the field is right there.