田

See also: 𐌎, ⊞, 申, 甲, and 由

Translingual

Stroke order

Stroke order (Japan)

Han character

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

1. Kangxi radical #102, ⽥.

Derived characters

• Index:Chinese radical/田

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 756, character 11
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 21723
• Dae Jaweon: page 1167, character 1
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2524, character 1
• Unihan data for U+7530

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Chinese

Glyph origin

Historical forms of the character 田
Shang		Western Zhou	Warring States		Shuowen Jiezi (compiled in Han)	Liushutong (compiled in Ming)
Bronze inscriptions	Oracle bone script	Bronze inscriptions	Chu slip and silk script	Qin slip script	Small seal script	Transcribed ancient scripts

Characters in the same phonetic series (田) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
田	*l'iːŋ
佃	*l'iːŋ, *l'iːŋs
畋	*l'iːŋ, *l'iːŋs
畇	*l'iːŋ, *sqʰʷin, *sɢʷin, *ɢʷin
鈿	*l'iːŋ, *l'iːŋs
沺	*l'iːŋ
甸	*l'iːŋs

Pictogram (象形) – pictographic representation of a field.

Etymology 1

simp. and trad.		田

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-liŋ (“field”).

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): tián (tian²)

  (Zhuyin): ㄊㄧㄢˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): tin⁴
• Hakka (Sixian, PFS): thièn
• Eastern Min (BUC): dièng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): tiân

  (Teochew, Peng'im): tiêng⁵ / tiang⁵

• Wu (Wugniu)
  • (Northern): ⁶di

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: tián
    • Zhuyin: ㄊㄧㄢˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: tián
    • Wade–Giles: tʻien²
    • Yale: tyán
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: tyan
    • Palladius: тянь (tjanʹ)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰi̯ɛn³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: tin⁴
    • Yale: tìhn
    • Cantonese Pinyin: tin⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: tin⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰiːn²¹/
• Hakka
  • (Sixian, incl. Miaoli and Meinong)
    • Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: thièn
    • Hakka Romanization System: tienˇ
    • Hagfa Pinyim: tian²
    • Sinological IPA: /tʰi̯en¹¹/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: dièng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tieŋ⁵³/

Note: literary.

• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: tiân
    • Tâi-lô: tiân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: dieen
    • IPA (Xiamen): /tiɛn²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /tiɛn²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /tiɛn¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /tiɛn²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /tiɛn²³/

Note: literary.

• • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: tiêng⁵ / tiang⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: thiêng / thiâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tʰieŋ⁵⁵/, /tʰiaŋ⁵⁵/

Note: tiêng5/tiang5 - literary (tiêng5 - Chaozhou).

• Wu
  • (Shanghai):
    • Wugniu: ⁶di
    • MiniDict: di^去
    • Wiktionary Romanisation (Shanghai): ³di
    • Sinological IPA (Shanghai): /di²³/

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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
Baxter	den
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
Expected Cantonese Reflex	tin4

• 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	/*lˁiŋ/
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/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 田

1. field; farmland

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

2. (alt. form 佃, 甸, 畋) to till land; to cultivate
3. (alt. form 佃, 畋) to hunt
4. a surname

Descendants

Sino-Xenic (田):

• → Japanese: 田(でん) (den)
• → Korean: 전(田) (jeon)
• → Vietnamese: điền (田)

Etymology 2

simp. and trad.		田
alternative forms		塍 堘

The Min native word for “paddy field; field”.

Etymology unknown. The original word has been identified as 塍 (OC *ɦljɯŋ, “raised path between fields”), although Norman proposes that this is related to 層 (OC *zɯːŋ, “layer”), reflecting the terraced fields commonly found in Fujian (Schuessler, 2007). Compare also 㽪 (“wet field”).

Pronunciation

• Northern Min (KCR): chiâng
• Eastern Min (BUC): chèng
• Southern Min

  (Hokkien, POJ): chhân

  (Teochew, Peng'im): cang⁵

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• Northern Min
  • (Jian'ou)
    • Kienning Colloquial Romanized: chiâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰiaŋ³³/
• Eastern Min
  • (Fuzhou)
    • Bàng-uâ-cê: chèng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰɛiŋ⁵³/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhân
    • Tâi-lô: tshân
    • Phofsit Daibuun: zhaan
    • IPA (Xiamen): /t͡sʰan²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /t͡sʰan²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /t͡sʰan¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /t͡sʰan²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /t͡sʰan²³/
  • (Teochew)
    • Peng'im: cang⁵
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī-like: tshâng
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /t͡sʰaŋ⁵⁵/

Definitions

(deprecated template usage) 田 (Min)

1. paddy field; wet field
2. farmland in general; field

Compounds

(deprecated template usage)

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Japanese

Kanji

田

(grade 1 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. paddy, field

Readings

• Go-on: でん (den, Jōyō)
• Kan-on: てん (ten)
• Kun: た (ta, 田, Jōyō)
• Nanori: だ (da)

Usage notes

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

Compounds

Compounds

• 豊(とよ)田(た) (Toyota)
• 成(なり)田(た) (Narita)
• 羽(はね)田(だ) (Haneda)
• 半(はん)田(だ) (Handa)
• 油(ゆ)田(でん) (yuden, “oil field”)

Etymology

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

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Japanese. Appears in the Kojiki written in roughly 711-712.

Noun

田(た) • (ta) 

1. rice paddy

   田(た)を耕(たがや)す

   ta o tagayasu

   to plow a rice field

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

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

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Korean

Hanja

田 (eumhun 밭 전 (bat jeon))

1. Hanja form^? of 전 (“cultivated patch of land”).

Compounds

Compounds

• 대전 (大田, Daejeon)

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Vietnamese

Han character

(deprecated template usage) 田 (điền, ruộng)

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