diàn, tián
tenant farmer
Depicts a person (亻) working in the fields (田). 田 also represents the sound.
Evolution
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Bronze script
Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 佃
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
tenant farmer | ||
farmer | ||
tenant farmer | ||
to rent out one's land (to tenant farmers) |
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*lˤiŋ-s | denH | diàn | hunt |
Statistics
Not found in HSK word list
3245th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 7 |
Unicode | U+4F43 |
Shuowen | “佃，中也。从人，田聲。《春秋傳》曰：‘乘中佃，一轅車。’” |
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