田
rice field, rice paddy
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)
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.