佃 (tián): to cultivate (land)

Meanings

1 to cultivate (land)
2 to hunt (archaic)

Characters

佃

tián

to cultivate (land)

Examples

HSK 7-9

古人佃猎为生。

Gǔrén tián liè wéi shēng.

The ancients cultivated land and hunted to live.

HSK 7-9

这些人山居，佃于石壁之间。

Zhèxiē rén shān jū, tián yú shíbì zhījiān.

These people lived in the mountains and farmed among the cliffs.

Tips

usage

Read tián, 佃 is a classical verb meaning to cultivate land or, by loan for 畋, to hunt. This reading is rare in modern Chinese.

Components

radical

亻 rén

person

The person radical, side form of 人, marks 佃 as a human activity: a person working rented farmland.

phonetic

田 tián

field; farmland

Both supplies the sound (behind the tián reading) and contributes meaning, the farmland that is rented and worked. Seen standing alone as 田.

Stroke Order

佃 tián

Related Words

佃农 diànnóng #40,031

tenant farmer / sharecropper

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to hunt and kill; to hunt down

陆地 lùdì HSK 4 #9,107

dry land / land (as opposed to the sea)

国土 guótǔ HSK 7-9 #5,262

national territory / land of a country / homeland

降 jiàng HSK 4 #3,853

to drop; to fall / to descend; to land / to lower; to reduce

公子 gōngzǐ #5,384

young master / son of a noble or wealthy family / gentleman (archaic/literary)

猎 liè #5,419

to hunt / hunting

降落 jiàngluò HSK 4 #3,151

to descend / to land

登陆 dēnglù HSK 7-9 #5,479

to land (on shore); to disembark / to log in (to a website or system)

开发 kāifā HSK 3 #5,579

to develop; to exploit (resources) / development (of products, software, land)