田

See also: 𐌎

Translingual

Stroke order

Japanese stroke order

Stroke order

Japanese stroke order

Etymology

Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Large seal script	Small seal script

Pictographic representation of a field.

Han character

田 (radical 102 田+0, 5 strokes, cangjie input 田 (W), four-corner 6040₀, composition ⿴囗十)

1. field, arable land, cultivated
2. a Chinese surname

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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Cantonese

Hanzi

田 (Jyutping tin4, Yale tin4)

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Hakka

Hanzi

田 (POJ thîen, Guangdong t'ien²; t'en² [Bao'an, Dongguan], Hagfa Pinyim tian2)

References

• CCDICT (Chineselanguage.org)
• Academia Sinica - Hakka-English Dictionary
• Lau, Chun-fat. Hakka Pinyin Dictionary (Chinese). Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 1997 (Chinese IME supplement) ISBN 962-201-750-9.

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Japanese

Kanji

田

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

Readings

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

Usage notes

This character means rice paddy in Japanese. The Chinese word for rice paddy is 水田.

Noun

田 (hiragana た, romaji ta)

1. rice paddy

Compounds

• 半田 (はんだ) (handa)
• 豊田 (とよた) (toyota)
• 羽田 (はねだ) (haneda)
• 成田 (なりた) (narita)

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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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Mandarin

Hanzi

田 (Pinyin tián (tian2), yāo (yao1), Wade-Giles t'ien², yao¹)

Noun

田 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin tián, measure word 片)

1. field, farmland

   田地 farmland, 田野 field

Proper noun

田 (traditional and simplified, Pinyin tián)

1. A surname​.

References

• "田" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary (based on CC-CEDICT). URL accessed on 2014-02-13.

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Middle Chinese

Han character

田 (*dhen)

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Min Nan

Hanzi

田 (TLPA tiân (tian⁵), tshân (tshan⁵))

References

• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Vietnamese

Han character

田 (điền, ruộng)