field

Origin & mnemonic

This radical originates from an ideographic representation of an agricultural field divided into smaller plots by irrigation channels. It is a pictographic glyph used since oracle-bone script to denote a cultivated field.

Mnemonic: The field radical (⽥) looks like a field divided into four equal square plots, each representing a unit of cultivated land.

• 略lüè🔊

  brief; sketchy

  HSK 7

  11 strokes

• 异yì🔊

  different

  11 strokes

• 畤zhì🔊

  ancient sacrifice

  11 strokes

• 畦qí🔊

  small plot of farm land

  11 strokes

• 画huà🔊

  to draw; to paint

  HSK 2

  12 strokes

• 番fān🔊

  (bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian

  HSK 6

  12 strokes

• 畬shē🔊

  (literary) slash-and-burn agriculture

  12 strokes

• 畯jùn🔊

  overseer

  12 strokes

• 畲Shē🔊

  She ethnic group

  12 strokes

• 畴chóu🔊

  arable fields

  12 strokes

• 当dāng🔊

  to be

  HSK 2

  13 strokes

• 畵huà🔊

  variant of 畫|画[hua4]

  13 strokes

• 畷chuò🔊

  raised path between fields

  13 strokes

• 畸jī🔊

  lopsided

  13 strokes

• 畹wǎn🔊

  a field of 20 or 30 mu

  13 strokes

• 畺jiāng🔊

  old variant of 疆[jiang1]

  13 strokes

• 畽tuǎn🔊

  place trodden by animals

  14 strokes

• 畾léi🔊

  fields divided by dikes

  15 strokes

• 畿jī🔊

  territory around the capital

  15 strokes

• 疃tuǎn🔊

  village

  17 strokes

• 疆jiāng🔊

  border

  19 strokes

• 㽮xīng🔊

  old variant of 星[xing1]

  20 strokes

• 叠dié🔊

  to pile up

  HSK 7

  22 strokes