The Chinese Radical: 田




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Meaning
field    田

Explanation

Used in these characters:
HSK 1
fruit, result, indeed
guǒ
Top: field 田, bottom: tree 木
The 'fields' at the trees are their: fruits.  
HSK 1
electricity, electrical
diàn
(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.  
HSK 1
hello (on telephone), to feed (i.e. animal)
wèi
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!"  
HSK 2
to prepare, get ready, to provide or equip
bèi
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.  
HSK 2
male, man
nán
Top: rice field 田, bottom: power 力
In the rice field you need the power of a man.  
HSK 2
tired, exhausted, continuous, repeat, implicate
léi, lěi, lèi
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.  
HSK 3
stay, to remain, to halt, to leave (eg a message)
liú
Top: bend , sword 刀, bottom: field 田
(Old soldiers guard the grain?) The bent person with a sword is at the field to stay.  
HSK 3
picture, to draw, painting
huà
Rice paddy 田 and a frame 凵, one 一
In a frame is a rice paddy, as: a picture.  
HSK 3
boundary, scope, limit, extent, domain, society
jiè
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.  
HSK 4
thin, slender, finely particulate, delicate

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.  
HSK 4
strive, exert oneself, arouse
fèn
Top: big 大, below: rice field 田
Who has a big rice field, must have strived (for it).  
HSK 5
thunder, terrific
léi
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 has only a thunder.]  
HSK 5
plan, strategy, outline, to rob, plunder
lüè
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.  
HSK 5
armor, shell, fingernails
jiǎ
It is shown a root-seedling 丨 with its shell/husk 田
The seedling cracks the shell. (but with a reason 由 which grows 丨 upwards.)  
HSK 5
sneeze

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.  
HSK 6
foreign, ethnic from outside China, (number of) times or fold
fān, pān
At top: emphasis ノ rice 米, below a rice field 田
The emphasized/modified rice on the field is foreign.  
HSK 6
field, farm
tián
Field 囗 with separators 十
A view of four rice paddies from above.  
HSK 6
to store up, to grow (eg. a beard)

Top: plant 艹, bottom: livestock, breeding 畜 (The mysterious 玄 field 田 is used to raise livestock [because it is not sufficiently fertile for grain crops]) [mysterious = 玄 = thread 玄 at which a mysterious magnet 磁 hangs]
Plants for raising livestock have to be grown & stored.  
HSK 6
livestock, domestic animal, to raise (animals)
chù, xù
Top: mysterious, occult 玄 (part of magnet: 磁, where an upper bracket 艹 holds threads 玄 with hanging stones 石 that are mysterious), bottom: field 田
(It is not sufficiently fertile for grain-crops:) The mysterious field is used for livestock.  
HSK 6
awe, reverence, to fear, to dread
wèi
From top: field 田, Variation of clothes 衣
He has fields and (good) clothes: we are in awe.  
HSK 6
free, unimpeded, smooth, at ease, fluent
chàng
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.  
HSK 6
arable field, cultivated field, class, category
chóu
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.  
HSK 6
field-path, bank
pàn
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).  
HSK 6
exhausted
bèi
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.  
HSK 6
bud
lěi
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.  
HSK 6
paralysis, numbness

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.  
no HSK
size of fields, (one fifteenth of a hectare)

Top: cover 亠, bottom: field 田
Only as big as a lid: this field size.  
no HSK
unbalanced, odd, irregular, abnormal, lopsided

Left; rice field 田, right: strange/odd 奇 (There is a big 大 possibility (opportunity) 可, but it looks strange.)
A rice field is strange, if it is unbalanced.  
no HSK
tenant farmer
diàn
Left: person 亻, right: rice field 田
The person at the rice field is the tenant farmer.  
no HSK
suburbs or outskirts
diàn
Outside: enwrap 勹, inside: rice field 田
They enwrap (the city) and they have rice fields: The suburbs.  
no HSK
mule
luó
Left: horse 马/馬, right: exhausted 累 (If the fields are long 田 as threads 糸, they will exhaust us)
The "horse" working until being exhausted, is the mule.  
no HSK
to adjoin, adjacent, to border on

Left: rice paddy 田, right: compare 比 (two sitting persons 匕)
A rice paddy is compared with: the adjoining.  
no HSK
to cuddle, embrace, fondle
wēi
Left: person 亻, right: awe/reverence 畏 (because he has rice fields 田 and (good) clothes 衣)
(Don't jump all over your partner right away:) A person shows awe/respect when cuddling.  
no HSK
cramp, spasm, convulsion, twitch
chù
Left: hand 扌, right: mysterious 玄 (part of magnet: 磁, where an upper bracket 艹 holds threads 玄 with hanging stones 石 that are mysterious) and field 田
When the hand contracts mysteriously to a fist 田, it is: a cramp.  
no HSK
beat, hit, to grind, to beat (a drum)
léi, lèi, lēi
Left: hand 扌, right: thunder 雷 (Rain 雨 falls on the fields 田 amidst thunder.)
A hand like a thunder, when: beating.  
no HSK
to put down, to leave behind, to abandon or discard
liào
Left: hand 扌, right: field 田, every 各 (Sitting cross-legged 夂 on a cushion 口 does everybody.)
When the hands are in the field (at work), then everyone will (in the evening) put this down.  
no HSK
puppet, dummy, marionette
lěi
Left: person 亻, right: 畾 (three fields 田)
(You can only work on one field) A person, who is (at the same time) on three rice fields is: a puppet.  
no HSK
raised path between fields
tǐng
Left: rice paddy 田, right: nail 丁
At the rice paddy (straight) like a nail: The raised path.  

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