田
contributes the sense of cultivated fields and farmland · Kangxi radical 102
contributes the sense of cultivated fields and farmland, and also stands in as a simplified stand-in for other round or boxy shapes
The old graph is a plain picture of a plot of land divided by paths or irrigation channels into smaller plots, drawn as a square crossed by one vertical and one horizontal line. The modern 田 keeps that picture exactly: an outer boundary with a cross inside marking four fields. Because it is such a simple box-with-a-cross, it also ended up absorbing unrelated shapes when characters were tidied up over time — the 田 in 胃 was originally a sac of grain in the belly, and the one in 鱼 is the squashed body of a fish, so a 田 does not always mean farmland.
田 at a glance
- Meaning
- contributes the sense of cultivated fields and farmland
- Strokes
- 5
- Characters
- 63
- Role
- Contributes meaning
- Kangxi radical
- 102
Characters with 田 (49 of 63)
HSK 2 · 4
HSK 4 · 4
HSK 6 · 6
Beyond HSK · 27
Frequently asked questions
What does the component 田 mean?
田 means "contributes the sense of cultivated fields and farmland". In the characters that contain it, it contributes meaning.
How many Chinese characters contain 田?
63 characters in this dictionary contain 田, including ones at HSK 1, HSK 2, HSK 3, HSK 4, HSK 5, HSK 6.
Is 田 a radical?
Yes — 田 is Kangxi radical 102, one of the 214 traditional indexing radicals used to organise Chinese dictionaries.
How many strokes does 田 have?
田 is written in 5 strokes.