The Chinese Radical: 田


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Meaning
field    田

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT HSK 1
fruit, result, indeed
guǒ
Top: field , bottom: tree
The 'fields' at the trees are their: fruits.
JLPT HSK 1
electricity, electrical
diàn
(This character was simplified from 電) Rice field with a lightning conductor/arrester for leading electricity.
If lightning strikes in the rice field, the lightning arrester has: electricity.
JLPT HSK 1
hello (on telephone), to feed (i.e. animal)
wèi
Left: mouth , right: awe, reverence (.. because he has rice fields and [good] clothes .)
His mouth was in awe when saying: "Hello!"
JLPT HSK 2
to prepare, get ready, to provide or equip
bèi
Top: crossed legs (partically understood as "upturned foot"), bottom: rice field
I am sitting crossed-legged at the rice field, because I am well prepared.
JLPT HSK 2
male, man
nán
Top: rice field , bottom: power
In the rice field you need the power of a man.
JLPT HSK 2
tired, exhausted, continuous, repeat, implicate
léi, lěi, lèi
Top: field , bottom: thread
(Working in fields that are too long is never ending:) If the fields are as long as threads, we will continously be exhausted.
JLPT HSK 3
stay, to remain, to halt, to leave (eg a message)
liú
Top: bend , sword , bottom: field
(Old soldiers guard the grain?) The bent person with a sword is at the field to stay.
JLPT HSK 3
picture, to draw, painting
huà
Rice paddy and a frame , one
In a frame is a rice paddy, as: a picture.
JLPT HSK 3
boundary, scope, limit, extent, domain, society
jiè
Top a field , bottom: intermediate/between (The person in this armor 丌 is in-between.)
The field has in between a bounded and limited area/domain.
JLPT HSK 4
thin, slender, finely particulate, delicate

Left: thread 纟/, right: field (Is understood here as a large rice field with four inner water or flooding areas separated by dams or paths )
Like threads are the dams within the rice field: so narrow.
JLPT HSK 4
strive, exert oneself, arouse
fèn
Top: big , below: rice field
Who has a big rice field, must have strived (for it).
JLPT HSK 5
thunder, terrific
léi
Top: rain (= window with cloud and drops ), below: field [cf. Electricity : When lightning strikes the field , then the lightning rod has electricity]
Rain falls on the field amidst thunder. [Or: The rain on the field without lightning has only a thunder.]
JLPT HSK 5
plan, strategy, outline, to rob, plunder
lüè
Left: field , right: each/every (Sitting cross-legged on a cushion does everybody)
(e.g. for irrigation) For fields, for each of it, one should have a plan or strategy.
JLPT HSK 5
armor, shell, fingernails
jiǎ
It is shown a root-seedling with its shell/husk
The seedling cracks the shell. (but with a reason which grows upwards.)
JLPT HSK 5
sneeze

Left: mouth , right: fall, stumble 疐 (Person falling from a roof into a field , but correctly /)
Out of the 'mouth' is falling sth., when sneezing.
JLPT HSK 6
foreign, ethnic from outside China, (number of) times or fold
fān, pān
At top: emphasis rice , below a rice field
The emphasised/modified rice on the field is foreign.
JLPT HSK 6
field, farm
tián
Field with separators
A view of four rice paddies from above.
JLPT HSK 6
to store up, to grow (eg. a beard)

Top: plant , bottom: livestock, breeding 畜 (The mysterious field is used to raise livestock [because it is not sufficiently fertile for grain crops]) [mysterious = = thread at which a mysterious magnet 磁 hangs]
Plants for raising livestock have to be grown & stored.
JLPT HSK 6
livestock, domestic animal, to raise (animals)
chù, xù
Top: mysterious, occult (part of magnet: 磁, where a upper bracket holds threads with hanging stones that are mysterious), bottom: field
(It is not suffciently fertile for grain-crops:) The mysterious field is used for livestock.
JLPT HSK 6
awe, reverence, to fear, to dread
wèi
From top: field , Variation of clothes
He has fields and (good) clothes: we are in awe.
JLPT HSK 6
free, unimpeded, smooth, at ease, fluent
chàng
Left: speak, explain (A mouth with a big "plus" + for the outgoing surplus when explaining.), right: warming sun shine
You speak at warm sunshine: free and unimpeded.
JLPT HSK 6
arable field, cultivated field, class, category
chóu
寿
Left: rice field , right: long life 寿 (two skillful hands & are needed for Sushi 寿 and you will have a long life.)
The field for your long life is: an arable field.
JLPT HSK 6
field-path, bank
pàn
Left: field , right: half (A knife cuts a birthday cake with candles in half.)
The fields are halved by the: field path (ridge).
JLPT HSK 6
exhausted
bèi
Top: preparation 备 (sitting cross-legged at rice field ), bottom: heart
He sits cross-legged at the rice field because of his heart: He is exhausted.
JLPT HSK 6
bud
lěi
Top: plant , bottom: thunder 雷 (Rain falls on the fields amidst thunder.)
At the plants appear (as sudden as) a thunder: the buds.
JLPT HSK 6
paralysis, numbness

Left: disease (An ice--cold building 广 makes sick.), right: 畀 (Rice field , two hands without the upper parts)
The disease, when at the field's work the hands are (almost) missing: The paralysis.
JLPT no HSK
size of fields, (one fifteenth of a hectare)

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

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

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

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