Meaning & readings
rice field, rice paddy
On’yomi デン
Kun’yomi た
Nanori いなか、おか、たん、で、とう、や
Origin
This character is a simple picture of a rice paddy divided into sections. The four strokes form a square with a line through the middle, which resembles looking down at an actual flooded rice field with its rectangular plots separated by water channels and paths. Because rice farming was central to East Asian civilization, this pictograph became the standard way to write the word for rice field, and later expanded to mean the field itself in any context.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Pictographic or simple.
Components
This character is treated as a single, undivided shape (田).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 5
- Kangxi radical
- 102
- Grade
- Grade 1 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #90 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 3
- Unicode
- U+07530