Meanings
Readings
Common Words
rural area; countryside; the sticks
hometown
Occ. derisive
person from the countryside; countryman; countryfolk; provincial person; bumpkin; hick; hillbilly; redneck
fields (of rice and other crops)
Abbreviation
pompadour-like hair style, popular for unmarried women in the Edo period; shimada coiffure
Food, cooking
oden; dish of various ingredients, e.g. egg, daikon, potato, chikuwa, konnyaku stewed in soy-flavored dashi
paddy field; farm
new rice field; newly developed rice field
wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)
Memory Mnemonics
Keywords
The core concepts or meanings associated with this specific kanji.
Mnemonic Stories
From above, this character looks like a rice field divided into plots by irrigation channels
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