The Chinese Radical: 田


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Meaning
field    田

Explanation

Used in these characters:
果
JLPT HSK 1
fruit, result, indeed
guǒ
果 田 木
Top: field 田, bottom: tree 木
The 'fields' at the trees are their: fruits.  
电
JLPT HSK 1
electricity, electrical
diàn
电 田 乚
(This character was simplified from 電) Rice field 田 with a lightning conductor/arrester 乚 for leading electricity.
If lightning strikes in the rice field, the lightning arrester has: electricity.  
喂
JLPT HSK 1
hello (on telephone), to feed (i.e. animal)
wèi
口 畏 田 衣
Left: mouth 口, right: awe, reverence 畏 (.. because he has rice fields 田 and [good] clothes 衣.)
His mouth was in awe when saying: "Hello!"  
备
JLPT HSK 2
to prepare, get ready, to provide or equip
bèi
夂 田
Top: crossed legs 夂 (partically understood as "upturned foot"), bottom: rice field 田
I am sitting crossed-legged at the rice field, because I am well prepared.  
男
JLPT HSK 2
male, man
nán
男 田 力
Top: rice field 田, bottom: power 力
In the rice field you need the power of a man.  
累
JLPT HSK 2
tired, exhausted, continuous, repeat, implicate
léi, lěi, lèi
田 糸
Top: field 田, bottom: thread 糸
(Working in fields that are too long is never ending:) If the fields are as long as threads, we will continuously be exhausted.  
留
JLPT HSK 3
stay, to remain, to halt, to leave (eg a message)
liú
留 田
Top: bend , sword 刀, bottom: field 田
(Old soldiers guard the grain?) The bent person with a sword is at the field to stay.  
画
JLPT HSK 3
picture, to draw, painting
huà
田
Rice paddy 田 and a frame 凵, one 一
In a frame is a rice paddy, as: a picture.  
界
JLPT HSK 3
boundary, scope, limit, extent, domain, society
jiè
田 介
Top a field 田, bottom: intermediate/between 介 (The person 人 in this armor 丌 is in: between.)
The field has in between a bounded and limited area/domain.  
细
JLPT HSK 4
thin, slender, finely particulate, delicate
xì
糸 田
Left: thread 纟/糸, right: field 田 (Is understood here as a large rice field 囗 with four inner water or flooding areas separated by dams or paths 十)
Like threads are the dams 十 within the rice field: so narrow.  
奋
JLPT HSK 4
strive, exert oneself, arouse
fèn
大 田
Top: big 大, below: rice field 田
He has a big rice field and has strived (for it).  
雷
JLPT HSK 5
thunder, terrific
léi
雷 雨 田
Top: rain 雨 (= window 冂 with cloud 一 and drops 丶丶), below: field 田 [cf. Electricity 电: When lightning strikes the field 田, then the lightning rod 乚 has electricity]
Rain falls on the field amidst thunder. [Or: The rain 雨 on the field 田 without lightning 乚 (= electicity 电) has only a thunder.]  
略
JLPT HSK 5
plan, strategy, outline, to rob, plunder
lüè
田 各
Left: field 田, right: each/every 各 (Sitting cross-legged 夂 on a cushion 口 does everybody.)
(e.g. for irrigation) For fields, for each of it, one should have a plan or strategy.  
甲
JLPT HSK 5
armor, shell, fingernails
jiǎ
甲 田
It is shown a (root) seedling 丨 and its shell/sheath 田 of that seed
The root of the seedling bursts its shell. (... and there is a reason 由 that it grows upwards 丨.)  
嚏
JLPT HSK 5
sneeze
tì
口 田 疋 正
Left: mouth 口, right: fall, stumble 疐 (Person 十 falling from a roof 冖 into a field 田, but correctly 正/疋)
Out of the 'mouth' is falling sth., when sneezing.  
番
JLPT HSK 6
foreign, ethnic from outside China, (number of) times or fold
fān, pān
番 釆 田
From top: emphasis ノ, rice 米, rice field 田
The emphasized/modified rice on the field is foreign.  
田
JLPT HSK 6
field, farm
tián
田
Field 囗 with separators 十
A view of four rice paddies from above.  
蓄
JLPT HSK 6
to store up, to grow (eg. a beard)
xù
艹 畜 玄 田
Top: plant 艹, bottom: cattle breeding 畜 (The mysterious 玄 field 田 is used for cattle breeding [because it is not sufficiently fertile for grain crops]) [mysterious = 玄 = thread 糸 with mysterious stone = magnet 磁]
Plants for cattle breeding have to be grown & stored.  
畜
JLPT HSK 6
cattle breeding, livestock, to raise (animals)
chù, xù
畜 玄 田
Top: mysterious, occult 玄 (part of magnet: 磁, where an upper bracket 艹 holds threads 玄/糸 with hanging stones 石 that are mysterious), bottom: field 田
(It is not sufficiently fertile for grain-crops:) The mysterious field is used for cattle breeding.  
畏
JLPT HSK 6
awe, reverence, to fear, to dread
wèi
畏 田 衣
From top: field 田, Variation of clothes 衣
He has fields and (good) clothes: we are in awe.  
畅
JLPT HSK 6
free, unimpeded, smooth, at ease, fluent
chàng
申 田 易
Left: speak, explain 申 (A mouth 口 with a big "plus" + for the outgoing surplus when explaining.), right: warming sun shine 易
You speak at warm sunshine: free and unimpeded.  
畴
JLPT HSK 6
arable field, cultivated field, class, category
chóu
田 寿
Left: rice field 田, right: long life 寿 (two skillful hands 手 & 寸 are needed for Sushi 寿司 and you will have a long life.)
The field for your long life is: an arable field.  
畔
JLPT HSK 6
field-path, bank
pàn
田 半
Left: field 田, right: half 半 (A knife cuts 丨 a birthday cake 二 with candles 丷 in half.)
The fields are halved by the: field path (ridge).  
惫
JLPT HSK 6
exhausted
bèi
夂 田 心
Top: preparation 备 (sitting cross-legged 夂 at rice field 田), bottom: heart 心
He sits cross-legged at the rice field because of his heart: He is exhausted.  
蕾
JLPT HSK 6
bud
lěi
艹 雷 雨 田
Top: plant 艹, bottom: thunder 雷 (Rain 雨 falls on the fields 田 amidst thunder.)
At the plants appear (as sudden as) a thunder: the buds.  
痹
JLPT HSK 6
paralysis, numbness
bì
疒 田 廾
Left: disease 疒 (An ice-冫-cold building 广 makes sick.), right: 畀 (Rice field 田, two hands 廾 without the upper parts)
The disease, when at the field's work the hands are (almost) missing: The paralysis.  
亩
JLPT no HSK
size of fields, (one fifteenth of a hectare)
mǔ
亠 田
Top: cover 亠, bottom: field 田
Only as big as a lid: this field size.  
畸
JLPT no HSK
unbalanced, odd, irregular, abnormal, lopsided
jī
田 奇
Left; rice field 田, right: strange/odd 奇 (If it is a too big 大 opportunity 可 (possibility), it might look strange.)
A rice field is strange, if it is unbalanced.  
佃
JLPT no HSK
tenant farmer
diàn
亻 田
Left: person 亻, right: rice field 田
The person at the rice field is the tenant farmer.  
甸
JLPT no HSK
suburbs or outskirts
diàn
勹 田
Outside: enwrap 勹, inside: rice field 田
They enwrap (the city) and they have rice fields: The suburbs.  
骡
JLPT no HSK
mule
luó
馬 田 糸
Left: horse 马/馬, right: exhausted 累 (If the fields are long 田 as threads 糸, they will exhaust us)
The “horse” to which the load 田 is attached with threads 糸 is the mule.  
毗
JLPT no HSK
to adjoin, adjacent, to border on
pí
田 比
Left: rice paddy 田, right: compare 比 (two sitting persons 匕)
A rice paddy is compared with: the adjoining.  
偎
JLPT no HSK
to cuddle, embrace, fondle
wēi
亻 畏 田 衣
Left: person 亻, right: awe/reverence 畏 (... because he has rice fields 田 and (good) clothes 衣)
Don't jump all over your darling right away:) A person should show awe/respect when cuddling.  
搐
JLPT no HSK
cramp, spasm, convulsion, twitch
chù
扌 畜 玄 田
Left: hand 扌, right: cattle breeding 畜 (The mysterious 玄 field 田 (= not fertile) is used for cattle) - [mysterious = 玄 = thread 糸 with mysterious stone = magnet 磁]
When the hand contracts mysteriously to a fist 田, it is: a cramp.  
擂
JLPT no HSK
beat, hit, to grind, to beat (a drum)
léi, lèi, lēi
扌 雷 雨 田
Left: hand 扌, right: thunder 雷 (Rain 雨 falls on the fields 田 amidst thunder.)
A hand like a thunder, when: beating.  
撂
JLPT no HSK
to put down, to leave behind, to abandon or discard
liào
扌 田 各
Left: hand 扌, right: field 田, every 各 (Sitting cross-legged 夂 on a cushion 口 does everybody.)
While the hands are (during the day) in the field (at work), then everyone will (in the evening) put this down.  
儡
JLPT no HSK
puppet, dummy, marionette
lěi
亻 田
Left: person 亻, right: 畾 (three fields 田)
(You can only work on one field at a time:) A person who is (at the same time) on three rice fields is: a puppet.  
町
JLPT no HSK
raised path between fields
tǐng
田 丁
Left: rice paddy 田, right: nail 丁
At the rice paddy (straight) like a nail: The raised path.  

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