田
田
rice field, rice paddy
5 strokesFrequency 90JLPT N3Grade 1
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Nanori
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Memory
Memory Mnemonics
Keywords
rice fieldbrains
Mnemonic Stories
From above, this character looks like a rice field divided into plots by irrigation channels
Dictionary
Common Words
1
rural area; countryside; the sticks
Examples
１週間田舎にいてすっかり元気になったような気がする。
I feel completely restored after a week in the country.
2
hometown
Examples
去年の夏、父の田舎に行きました。
I visited my father's hometown last summer.
1
Occ. derisive
person from the countryside; countryman; countryfolk; provincial person; bumpkin; hick; hillbilly; redneck
Examples
この田舎者めが。
You clown you.
1
Abbreviation
pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure
1
Food, cooking
oden; dish of various ingredients, e.g. egg, daikon, potato, chikuwa, konnyaku stewed in soy-flavored dashi
1
paddy field; farm
Examples
この辺りは昔、田んぼだったんだよ。
There used to be rice fields around here.
1
new rice field; newly developed rice field
2
wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)
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