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.

• 男nán🔊

  (bound form) male

  HSK 1

  7 strokes

• 町tǐng🔊

  raised path between fields

  7 strokes

• 甸diàn🔊

  suburbs or outskirts

  7 strokes

• 甹pīng🔊

  chivalrous knight

  7 strokes

• 画huà🔊

  to draw; to paint

  HSK 2

  8 strokes

• 畀bì🔊

  to confer on

  8 strokes

• 畄liú🔊

  old variant of 留[liu2]

  8 strokes

• 甽quǎn🔊

  drain between fields, irrigation

  8 strokes

• 甾zāi🔊

  steroid nucleus

  8 strokes

• 甿méng🔊

  variant of 氓[meng2]

  8 strokes

• 畁bì🔊

  variant of 畀[bi4]

  8 strokes

• 界jiè🔊

  (bound form) boundary; border

  HSK 6

  9 strokes

• 畏wèi🔊

  to fear

  9 strokes

• 畒mǔ🔊

  old variant of 畝|亩[mu3]

  9 strokes

• 毗pí🔊

  to adjoin

  9 strokes

• 畇yún🔊

  reclaimed land

  9 strokes

• 畈fàn🔊

  field

  9 strokes

• 畋tián🔊

  to cultivate (land)

  9 strokes

• 畎quǎn🔊

  field drains

  9 strokes

• 留liú🔊

  old variant of 留[liu2]

  HSK 2

  10 strokes

• 毕bì🔊

  the whole of

  10 strokes

• 亩mǔ🔊

  old variant of 畝|亩[mu3]

  HSK 7

  10 strokes

• 畔pàn🔊

  (bound form) side; edge; boundary

  10 strokes

• 畚běn🔊

  a basket or pan used for earth, manure etc

  10 strokes

• 畛zhěn🔊

  border

  10 strokes

• 畜chù🔊

  livestock

  10 strokes

• 畟cè🔊

  sharp

  10 strokes