tián
field
Pictograph of a field.
Evolution

Oracle script
(~1250-1000 BC)
Bronze script
Early Western Zhou (~1000 BC)
Seal script
Shuowen (~100 AD)
Clerical script
Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)Regular script
ModernMost common words with 田
Freq. | Word | Meaning |
---|---|---|
field | ||
oil field | ||
Toyota or Toyoda (name) | ||
track and field (athletics) | ||
Honda (Japanese name) |
Component uses
Meaning component in 31 characters (9 verified)
里 当 當 界 留 男 略 野 畾 兽 畜 亩 畴 疇 畔 畸 佃 毗 町 畹 畿 畦 畬 畲 畛 畈 疃 畋 畎 畟 畑
Deleted component in 1 character (1 verified)
Historical pronunciation
Old Chinese | Middle Chinese | Pinyin | Gloss |
*lˤiŋ | den | tián | field; to hunt |
Statistics
HSK level 6
Appears in 10.0112% of movies
1566th most common character in movies
778th most common character in books
Miscellaneous
Strokes | 5 |
Unicode | U+7530 |
Shuowen | “田,陳也,樹穀曰田。象四口,十,阡陌之制也。” |
Sources
季旭昇《說文新證》p.914
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