Chinese Character Wiki

畋

tián

till land

A man 攵 working on a farm 田; 田 also provides the pronunciation

Components
田 sound,meaning component

田  Sound Meaning component

tián

  

field

攵 meaning component

攵  Meaning component

pū

  

tap

Evolution

畋 Oracle script (~1250-1000 BC)

Oracle script

(~1250-1000 BC)
畋 Bronze script Late Warring States (~250 BC)

Bronze script

Late Warring States (~250 BC)
畋 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
畋 Clerical script Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)

Clerical script

Eastern Han dynasty (25-220 AD)
畋 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

畋  

tián

till land, cultivate; hunt; to cultivate (land); to hunt

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*lˤiŋ-s

denH

diàn

cultivate a field

*lˤiŋ

den

tián

hunt


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

6067th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

9

Unicode

U+754B

Shuowen

“畋，平田也。从攴、田。《周書》曰：‘畋尒田。’”


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