田

See also: 𐌎, ⊞, 申, 甲, and 由

Translingual

Stroke order

Japanese stroke order

Han character

田 (radical 102 田+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 田 (W), four-corner 6040₀)

References

• KangXi: page 756, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21723
• Dae Jaweon: page 1167, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 4, page 2524, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7530

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Chinese

simp. and trad.		田

Alternative forms

• (field): (Min Nan) 塍 (chhân), 堘 (chhân)

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 田
Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Bamboo and silk script	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictogram (象形) - pictographic representation of a field.

Pronunciation

Note: This character is used as a substitute for Min Nan chhân, which may be etymologically unrelated.

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tián (tian²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thièn
• Min Nan

  (Hokkien, POJ): tiân / chhân

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cang⁵

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: tián
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: t'ien²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyan
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin⁴
    • Yale: tìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thièn
    • Hakka Romanization System: tienˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tian²
    • IPA: /tʰi̯en¹¹/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiân / chhân
    • Tâi-lô: tiân / tshân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dieen, zhaan
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɛn²⁴/, /t͡sʰan²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɛn¹³/, /t͡sʰan¹³/
    • Note: chhân - borrowed; tiân - literary.
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cang⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshâng
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaŋ⁵⁵/
    • Note: borrowed.

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• Middle Chinese: /den/▼

Rime
Character	田
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	定 (7)
Final (韻)	先 (85)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	IV
Fanqie	徒年切
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/den/
Pan Wuyun	/den/
Shao Rongfen	/dɛn/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/dɛn/
Li Rong	/den/
Wang Li	/dien/
Bernard Karlgren	/dʱien/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	tián

• Old Chinese▼

  (Baxter-Sagart): /*lˤiŋ/

  (Zhengzhang): /*l'iːŋ/

Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character	田
Reading #	1/1
Modern Beijing (Pinyin)	tián
Middle Chinese	‹ den ›
Old Chinese	/*lˤiŋ/
English	field; to hunt
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: * Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; * Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; * Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; * Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; * Period "." indicates syllable boundary.

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	田
Reading #	1/1
No.	12392
Phonetic component	田
Rime group	眞
Rime subdivision	2
Corresponding MC rime	田
Old Chinese	/*l'iːŋ/

Noun

田

1. field, farmland

   一塊玉米田 / 一块玉米田  ―  yī kuài yùmǐ tián  ―  a corn field

2. Kangxi radical 102 "field"

Compounds

• 田地 (tiándì, “farmland”)
• 田野 (tiányě, “field”)
• 丹田 (dāntián, “dantian”)
• 田園／田园 (tiányuán, “arable land”)
• 田螺 (tiánluó, “paddy snail”)
• (Min Nan) 湳田 (“muddy field”)

Proper noun

田

1. A surname​.

References

• 田 in CEDICT on MDBG
• “Query for 田”, in 臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典 [Dictionary of Frequently-Used Taiwan Minnan], Ministry of Education, R.O.C., 2011.

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Japanese

Kanji

田

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. paddy, field

Readings

• Goon: でん (den)
• Kan’on: てん (ten)
• Kun: た (ta)
• Nanori: だ (da)

Usage notes

Note that the rice paddy meaning is specific to Japanese. The Chinese word for rice paddy is 水田.

Compounds

Compounds

豊田 (とよた) ‎(toyota) 成田 (なりた) ‎(narita) 羽田 (はねだ) ‎(haneda) 半田 (はんだ) ‎(handa) 油田 (ゆでん) ‎(yuden): oil field

Etymology

Kanji in this term
田
た Grade: 1
kun'yomi

From Old Japanese. Appears in the Kojiki written in roughly 711-712.

Pronunciation

• Kun'yomi
• (Tokyo) た​ [táꜜ] (Atamadaka - [1])
• IPA^(key): [ta̠]

Noun

田 ‎(hiragana た, romaji ta)

1. rice paddy
2. cultivated field

Usage notes

The term ta can refer to either a wet field as for rice agriculture, or a dry field as for other crops. This term does not refer to a wild field or meadow.

Derived terms

Derived terms

田圃 (たんぼ) ‎(tanbo), 田 (た)んぼ ‎(tanbo): a cultivated field

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Korean

Hanja

田 • ‎(jeon)
Eumhun:

• Sound (hangeul): 전 (revised: jeon, McCune-Reischauer: chŏn, Yale: cen)

• Name (hangeul): 밭()

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Vietnamese

Han character

田 (điền, ruộng)

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