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田

rice field
Stroke count: 5

Readings

On readingデン
Kun readingた
JLPT level: N4JōyōGrade 1

Meanings

  1. rice fieldRtK
  2. rice paddy

Popular Usage

田舎田ぼ

Radicals and components

Radical田field

Mnemonic (RtK)

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brains

From "Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig · Frame 14

Compound words

田舎いなか
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
池田菊苗いけだきくなえ
Kikunae Ikeda (1864–1936), chemist who identified umami as a taste and isolated glutamate.
金田かねだ
Japanese name
山田やまだ
Japanese name
森田もりた
Japanese name
竹田たけだ
Japanese name
田水でんすい
irrigation
田中たなか
Japanese name
塩田えんでん
saltpan; field for drying salt
桑田そうでん
mulberry plantation
上田じょうでん
high rice field; very fertile rice field
水田すいでん
(water-filled) paddy field
田園でんえん
the country; countryside; rural districts; cultivated land; fields
田畑たはた
fields (of rice and other crops)
油田ゆでん
oil field
稲田いなだ
paddy field; rice field
票田ひょうでん
(reliable) source of votes; area of strong electoral support; stronghold; (voter) base
沼田ぬまた
deep-mud paddy
炭田たんでん
coalfield; coal field
新田しんでん
new rice field; newly developed rice field; wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)
田植えたうえ
rice planting
田んぼたんぼ
rice field; rice paddy; paddy field
青田買いあおたがい
speculatively buying a rice harvest, while the fields are still green; recruiting of university students before the agreed date
お田おでん
oden

Additional Examples

彼は福田派に属していました。
He once belonged to the Fukuda faction.tatoeba
彼は都会人の作法を身につけているけれども根は田舎育ちだ。
For all his city ways, he is a country boy at heart.tatoeba
彼は田舎の方へ向かった。
He took his way to the country.tatoeba
彼は田舎をあちこちさまよった。
He wandered about the country.tatoeba

Stroke Order

5 strokes

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