田たんぼ

also: でんぽ

た

ん

ぼ

Common wordJLPTN2Freq.FrequencyTop 20,000

Meanings

noun

rice field; paddy field

Common word for a flooded field where rice is grown. Used in everyday conversation.

夏なつになると田たんぼに水みずが張はられる。
In summer, the rice fields are flooded with water.
子こ供どもの頃ころ、田たんぼでよく遊あそんだ。
When I was a child, I often played in the rice paddies.

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Usage patterns

〈場ば所しょ〉の田たんぼで働はたらくto work in the rice field (at a place)
祖そ父ふは毎まい朝あさ、村むらの田たんぼで働はたらいている。
My grandfather works in the village rice field every morning.
田たんぼに水みずを入いれるto flood the rice field with water
田た植うえの前まえに田たんぼに水みずを入いれる。
Before planting the rice, they flood the paddy with water.
田たんぼを耕たがやすto till/plow the rice field
春はるになると農のう家かは田たんぼを耕たがやす。
When spring comes, farmers till the rice fields.
田たんぼが広ひろがるfor rice fields to stretch out (across a landscape)
山やまのふもとには田たんぼが広ひろがっている。
Rice fields stretch out at the foot of the mountain.

Kanji

田rice field, rice paddy
圃garden, field
畝furrow, thirty tsubo, ridge

Related words· 10

水すい田でんN1
水田 is the technical/agricultural term for an irrigated rice paddy, while 田んぼ is the everyday, conversational word for the same thing.
田たN3
田 is a more formal or literary word for a rice field, often appearing in compounds, whereas 田んぼ is the casual spoken term.
稲いな田だ
田んぼ is the common, everyday word for a rice paddy, while 稲田 sounds more literary and often appears in place names or descriptive writing.
深ふか田だ
田んぼ is the general word for any rice field, while 深田 specifically denotes one with deep, soft mud that is hard to work in.

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沼ぬま田た
田んぼ is the general word for any rice paddy, while 沼田 specifically denotes a paddy with deep, soft mud that makes it hard to work in.
新しん田でん
新田 refers specifically to a newly cleared or reclaimed rice paddy, while 田んぼ is the general, everyday word for any rice field.
田た畑はたN1
田んぼ refers only to rice paddies, while 田畑 covers both rice paddies and dry fields together.
小お田だ
小田 is an old-fashioned, mostly historical/toponymic word, whereas 田んぼ is the common, everyday colloquial term for a rice field used today.
本ほん田でん
田んぼ is the everyday, colloquial word for a rice paddy, whereas 本田 sounds formal or literary in comparison.
農のう地ちN1
田んぼ refers specifically to a rice paddy, a concrete subtype, while 農地 is the general category that also includes dry fields and pastures.

Opposites

畑はたけN3
田んぼ is a flooded field for growing rice, while 畑 is a dry field used for growing vegetables or other crops.

Don't confuse with

田舎いなかN5
田んぼ means a specific rice paddy, while 田舎 (sharing the kanji 田) means the countryside or one's rural hometown in general.
麦むぎ畑ばたけ
田んぼ is a flooded rice paddy, whereas 麦畑 is a dry field for wheat or barley, so the two are easy to mix up as 'farm field' words.

Counted with

面めんN1
face · mask; face guard · striking the head (in kendo) · surface (geometrical) · page · aspect; facet; side · chamfer · counter for flat objects, levels, or stages

Word family

田たんぼアート
tanbo art; rice paddy art

Written forms

田たんぼUsage72%
Standard modern spelling. The reading たんぼ is the only current pronunciation.
田圃Usage21%
ateji (phonetic kanji usage)
- たんぼ
  Ateji spelling; rarely used in modern writing. The reading でんぽ/でんぼ is obsolete.
- でんぼ
  out-dated reading
- でんぽ
  out-dated reading
たんぼUsage7%
田畝
rarely-used kanji formout-dated reading
- でんぽ
  Obsolete kanji form with obsolete reading でんぽ (also でんぼ). Not used in contemporary Japanese.
- でんぼ
でんぼ
out-dated reading
でんぽ
out-dated reading

Etymology

Derived from 田 (た, 'rice field') with the suffix んぼ, which adds a colloquial or familiar nuance. The exact origin of んぼ is uncertain, but it may be related to a dialectal or emphatic suffix.