Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 1

JLPT level: N4

90 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 5

Meaning: rice field, rice paddy

Kunyomi:

Onyomi: デン

Radical

Radical:

Reading:

Meaning: field

Strokes: 5

Examples

Examples with audio

(すいでん)   rice field

園(でんえん)   rural area

んぼ(たんぼ)   rice field

植え(たうえ)   rice planting

(まつだ)   Matsuda (surname)

Onyomi Examples

タハタ fields (of rice and other crops)

デンエン the country, countryside, rural districts, cultivated land, fields

ソウデン mulberry plantation

スイデン (water-filled) paddy field

Kunyomi Examples

rice field

植え たうえ rice planting

しんでん new rice field, newly developed rice field, wasteland or marshland newly reclaimed as a rice field (Edo period)

ぬまた marshy rice field or paddy