The Japanese Radical: 田


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Meaning
rice field    田

Explanation

Used in these characters:
JLPT 5Joyo 1
man, male
otoko, DAN, NAN
Top: rice paddy 田, bottom: power 力 (hand or arm with biceps ノ)
In the rice paddy you need the power of a man.  
JLPT 4Joyo 1
town, block
machi, CHŌ
Left: rice paddy 田, right: block of houses 丁
At the rice paddy is a block of houses: This is the beginning of the: town.  
JLPT 4Joyo 1
rice field
ta, DEN
A field 囗 with four fragments 十
A big field divided into four paddies.  
JLPT 4Joyo 2
picture, painting
KAKU, GA
Rice paddy 田 and a frame 凵/一
With a frame around the rice field it becomes: a picture or painting.  
JLPT 3Joyo 2
fish
sakana, uo, GYO

Image of a fish with a head ⺈, body 田 and tail fin 灬 that is swimming upwards.  
JLPT 4Joyo 2
to think
omou, SHI
Top: rice field 田 (here: image of the brain), bottom: heart 心
Use your brain and your heart: for thinking.  
JLPT 3Joyo 2
number, guard, order, watch
BAN
Top: ripe rice-plant 釆 (combination of rice plant 禾 and rice 米), bottom: rice field 田
The ripe rice plants on the field are numbered and need to be guarded.  
JLPT 4Joyo 3
world, border, limitation, area
KAI
Top: field 田, bottom: intermediate, shell 介 (A person in an armament)
Around the field are shells from all of the world as a limitation.  
JLPT 3Joyo 2
narrow, thin, fine
hosoi, komakai, SAI
Left: thread 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.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
to say (humble vs. superior), report
su, SHIN
Variant of: to speak 曰 [いわ-く], which shows a mouth 口 with a tongue 一. But better a mouth 口 with a big "plus" + indicating a surplus out of that mouth.
A mouth with an outgoing surplus when: speaking.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
dry field
hata, hatake,
Left: fire 火, right: rice field 田
With fire the rice field turns into: a dry field.  
JLPT 2Joyo 3
nose, snout
hana, BI
From top: self 自 (The emphasized ノ eye 目 as the "self"), rice field 田, plant 艹
(Because of hay fever:) I myself in a field with plants and it itches at my nose.  
JLPT 3Joyo 3
reason, cause, effect, way
yoshi, YU, YŌ
A rice field 田 with a sprouting plant 丨
A field with a sprouting plant: there must be a reason.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
stomach
I
Top: Rice field 田, below: part of body 月/肉
It comes from the field and ends up in this part of the body: The stomach.  
JLPT 3Joyo 4
fruit, result, carry out, accomplish
hate, hatasu, KA
Top: field 田, below: tree 木
The 'fields' of the trees are their fruits.  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
abbreviation, omission, almost
hobo, RYAKU
Left: field 田, right: each/every 各 (With crossed legs 夂 on a cushion 口 sits everybody.)
For fields, namely for every, there is an abbreviation. (Simply traverse it.)  
JLPT 2Joyo 5
detain, stop, remain, fasten
tomaru/meru, RYŪ, RU
Top: bend and sword 刀, field 田
The bent person with the sword, wants you from the field to be detained.  
JLPT 2Joyo 6
differ, dissimilar, strange, uncommon
kotonaru, I
Top: rice field 田, bottom: together 共 (Put the plants 艹 on the table together)
Put a rice paddy together (with other paddies) and you will see that they are different.  
JLPT 1Joyo 6
be excited, stirred up, rouse
furuu, FUN
From top: big 大, bird 隹, field 田
If something big (i.e. an eagle) is over the birds in the field, they get excited.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
shell, armor, grade A
kōra, KŌ, KAN
Seed 丨, shell/husk 田
The seedling (root shoot) cracks its shell.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
tatami, mat, fold
tatami, tatamu,
From top: field 田 (here: area), cover 冖, besides/moreover 且 (A pile of stones [= a stone cairn] where moreover stones are added.)
An 'area' can be covered and they can be piled: folded tatami mats.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
measure of surface, 99.3sqm, furrow
une, se,
Left: lid 亠, field 田, right: long lasting 久 (This bent ⺈ person 人 has been here already for a long time)
This 'lid' served in the field for a long time as a: surface measure.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
dragon
tatsu, RYŪ, RYŌ
Top: stand 立, below: 电 (field 田 with a tail 乚)
It is standing in the field with a huge tail: A dragon.  
JLPT 2Joyo 7
livestock, domestic fowl and animals
CHIKU
Top: mysterious, occult 玄 (part of magnet: 磁, where a upper bracket 艹 holds 玄/糸 hanging stones 石 that behave mysteriously), below: field 田
(The fertile fields are used to grow grain. But:) Mysterious (= barren) field can at least be used for breeding livestock.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
accumulate, store, save, keep
takuwaeru, CHIKU
Top: plant 艹, below: livestock 畜 (Use a mysterious 玄 [= barren] field 田 for breeding livestock) [cf. magnet 磁]
Plants for raising livestock should be accumulated as a store.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
paddy-ridge (pathway between two fields), edge
aze, HAN
Left: field 田, right: half 半 (A cake 二 with candles 丷 is cut by knife丨into half.)
The field is halved by the ridge.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
wing
tsubasa, YOKU
Top: wings 羽, bottom: strange, dissimilar 異 (Put a rice paddy 田 together 共 (with other paddies) and you will see how strange they are.)
The two wings are strange but they are wings.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
thunder, thunderbolt
kaminari, RAI
Top: rain 雨 (view out of a window 冂 with a cloud 一, that is raining =,=), below: field 田
When it rains in the fields there is also: thunder.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
implication, accumulate, trouble
RUI
Top: field 田, below: thread 糸
A whole field of threads causes bad implications.  
JLPT 1Joyo 7
fort, baseball, base
RUI
From top: field 田; four-fold; earth 土
The field is four-fold [= to all sides] piled up with earth and becomes: a fortification.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
fear, anxiety, horror, uneasiness, graciously
osoreru, I
Top: field 田, below: variation of clothes 衣
On the fields they wear (damaged) clothes that are fearful.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
area, district, capital
KI
Top: variation of "several" 幾 (Two threads 幺/糸 were cut by a person 人 with a halberd 戈 into several.), below: field 田
Several fields are needed for the capital district.  
JLPT -Joyo 7
lapis lazuli, blue sky
RU
Left: king 王, right: detain, keep off 留 (The bent person with the sword 刀 wants you from the field 田 to be detained.)
The king detains you from the blue sky.  

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