田 rice field

On'yomi: デン
Kun'yomi: た
Strokes: 5
JLPT: N4
Taught in: Primary school, year 1

Stroke order

1
2
3
4
5

田 is written in 5 strokes. Each panel adds the next one; the dot marks where the brush starts.

Remember it

A square plot cut into four by irrigation paths — look down from the sky and you see a flooded rice field.

A common word

田中たなか Tanaka (surname)

Example sentences

田中さんは今日休みです。
たなかさんはきょうやすみです。
Mr. Tanaka is off today.
家の後ろに田があります。
いえのうしろにたがあります。
There's a rice field behind the house.