- 田園 — rural countryside
- 田畑 — fields and paddies
- 田舎 — countryside
- 田植え — rice planting
- 田んぼ — rice field
- 田中 — 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.
田んぼに 水が あります。
There is water in the rice field.
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.