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Kanji Detail for 佃 - "cultivate, reclaimed field"

佃

  • Meaning

    佃 means "cultivate, reclaimed field." Also associated with hunt.

    1. Hunt - To pursue game; to go hunting.

    2. Cultivate - To till the land; to farm.

    3. Reclaimed field - Land cleared from wilderness.

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    • Verified meaning: cultivate, reclaimed field
    • Jinmeiyō kanji — officially approved for use in Japanese given names
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read つくだ, つくだゆきえ, つのだ, てん)
    • Also carries these associations: hunt

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Name readings of 佃

    Surnames 佃(つくだ)Listen 佃(つくだゆきえ)Listen 佃(つのだ)Listen 佃(てん)Listen 佃(でん)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    cultivated rice field

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    tenant farmer; be a tenant farmer

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    to rent farmland from a landlord

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    tenant farmer; to be a tenant farmer

    XSZD Xuéshēng Zìdiǎn (學生字典) - Student's Dictionary

    To cultivate land. Hence farmers who rent land to cultivate are called 佃戶 (tenant farmers). | To hunt. (Book of Changes) "To farm and to fish."

  • Onyomi

    tip

    den(デン) デン

    ten(テン) テン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    tsukuda(つくだ) つくだ

  • Strokes

    tip

    7 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    人 亻 (hito・nimben・hitogashira・hitoyane)

  • Related Keywords

    hunt cultivate reclaimed field making fields tilling rice paddy agriculture cleared crops cultivation earth farm game ground harvest irrigation land planting plow pursue rural soil

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