田

音読おんよみ: デン

訓読くんよみ:

画数かくすう: 5 strokes

部首ぶしゅ: 田(た / rice field)

Meaning

Rice field; paddy; farmland


  • 田園でんえん — rural countryside
  • 田畑たはた — fields and paddies
  • 田舎いなか — countryside
  • 田植えたうえ — rice planting
  • んぼ — rice field
  • 田中たなか — Tanaka (a common surname)

The character 田 visually represents a rice field with divisions for irrigation. It hasn’t changed much over centuries and is a key symbol in Japanese life, often found in names and geography.

んぼに みずが あります。
There is water in the rice field.

田舎いなかしずかにしたいです。
I want to live quietly in the countryside.

Usually read as “ta”, like tanbo or taue. In compound words, it may shift to “den” — as in den’en (countryside). Sometimes voiced to “da”, like inada.

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