田

See also: 𐌎, ⊞, 申, 甲, and 由

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		田

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tián, yāo (tian², yao¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˊ, ㄧㄠ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin⁴
• Hakka (Pha̍k-fa-sṳ): thîen
• Min Nan (POJ): tiân / chhân

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: tián
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˊ
    • Wade-Giles: t'ien²
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyan
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
      
      
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: yāo
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄠ
    • Wade-Giles: yao¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: iau
    • IPA ^(key): /i̯ɑʊ̯⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: tin⁴
    • Yale: tìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin⁴
    • IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn²¹/
• Hakka
  • Romanisations:
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thîen
    • IPA (Siyen, including Miaoli): /tʰi̯en²⁴/
• Min Nan
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiân / chhân
    • Tâi-lô: tiân / tshân
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɛn²³/, /t͡sʰan²³/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɛn¹³/, /t͡sʰan¹³/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (田, reconstructed)
Character (田), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 定 (7) Final: 先 Division: IV			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 徒年切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/den/	/dʱien/	/den/	/den/	/dɛn/	/dien/	/dɛn/

Old Chinese pronunciation (田, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
田								tián								‹ den ›								/*lˤiŋ/								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					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
田					12392					田					眞					2					田					/*l'iːŋ/

Noun

田

1. field, farmland

   一块玉米田  ―  yī kuài yùmǐ tián  ―  A corn field

2. Kangxi radical 102（field)

Compounds

• 田地 farmland
• 田野 field

Proper noun

田

1. A surname​.

References

• "田" (in Mandarin/English), MDBG English to Chinese dictionary (based on CC-CEDICT). URL accessed on 2014-02-13.
• Taiwan Min Nan Common Words Dictionary (臺灣閩南語常用詞辭典)

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Japanese

Kanji

田

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

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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.

Kanji in this term

田

た Grade: 1

kun'yomi

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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Vietnamese

Han character

田 (điền, ruộng)

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