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Kanji Detail for 田 - "rice field, countryside"

田

  • Meaning

    田 means "rice field, countryside." Also associated with to cultivate.

    1. Rice field - Paddies; farmland; cultivated land in general.

    2. To hunt - To go hunting.

    3. To cultivate - To till the land.

    4. Source - A metaphor for a place that produces something.

    5. Countryside - Rural areas.

  • Words using 田

    • 上田 じょうでん Listen high rice field; very fertile rice field
    • 水田 すいでん Listen (water-filled) paddy field
    • 油田 ゆでん Listen oil field
    • 田舎 いなか Listen rural area; countryside; the sticks
    • 桑田 そうでん Listen mulberry plantation
    • 田畑 たはた Listen fields (of rice and other crops)
    • 田植え たうえ Listen rice planting
    • 新田 しんでん Listen new rice field; newly developed rice field; wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)

  • Four-character idioms with 田

    • 我田引水 がでんいんすい Listen seeking one's own interests; straining (the interpretation or argument) to suit one's own interests; drawing water for one's own field
    • 李下瓜田 りかかでん Listen be careful not to invite the least suspicion; leave no room for scandal
    • 桑田滄海 そうでんそうかい Listen the world is a scene of constant changes (as a mulberry field changing into a blue sea)
    • 桑田碧海 そうでんへきかい Listen the world is a scene of constant changes (as a mulberry field changing into a blue sea)
    • 滄海桑田 そうかいそうでん Listen the world is a scene of constant changes
    • 瓜田李下 かでんりか Listen be careful not to invite the least suspicion; leave no room for scandal

  • Tattoo check: 田

    • Verified meaning: rice field, countryside
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read じよん, た, たさき, たざき)
    • Also carries these associations: to cultivate

    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 田

    Surnames 田(じよん)Listen 田(た)Listen 田(たさき)Listen 田(たざき)Listen 田(だざき)Listen 田(たつる)Listen 田(だん)Listen 田(ちょん)Listen 田(ちよん)Listen 田(ぢょん)Listen 田(でん)Listen 田(やなきだ)Listen

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    rice field; rice paddy

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    field, arable land, cultivated

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    surname Tian

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    field, farm, arable land; cultivated

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

    Land where grain can be planted is called 田. | To hunt.

  • Onyomi

    tip

    den(デン) デン

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    ta(た) た

  • Strokes

    tip

    5 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    田 (ta・tahen)

  • Related Keywords

    rice field to cultivate countryside hunting source tillage agrarian agriculture crop cultivation farming farmland fieldwork food grain ground harvest irrigation paddies planting rural seedlings soil

Sentences including 田

  • I'm at narita airport right now.

  • They went down to the country.

  • I'm a country boy now.

  • I did not live in sanda last year.

  • I like to walk in the country.

  • I have not lived in sanda since last year.

  • My name is yamada.

  • We spent a quiet day in the country.

  • Mr tanaka is a doctor , isn't he?

  • Her mother lives in the country all by herself.

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