田 — how to write the kanji for “rice field”

田 (“rice field” and “rice paddy”) is a JLPT N4 kanji taught in first grade in Japan. In newspapers it is one of the hundred most used kanji (90th). Its Japanese stroke 3, a vertical, is the 4th stroke in the Chinese order. On its own it is the word ta, “rice field”. Read den, it forms 上田 (“high rice field”), 水田 (“(water-filled) paddy field”) and 油田 (“oil field”); the native reading ta gives 田畑 (“fields”) and 田植え (“rice planting”). Chinese reads it tián, “field”, at HSK 6.

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田 (“rice field”)

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