畑 (tián): a Japanese-coined character: a…

Meanings

1 a Japanese-coined character: a dry field; used in Japanese surnames

Characters

畑

tián

dry field (Japanese kokuji)

Examples

这个字用于日本姓氏，读作hata或bata。

Zhège zì yòngyú Rìběn xìngshì, dú zuò hata huò bata.

This character appears in Japanese surnames, where it is read 'hata' or 'bata'.

Tips

history

畑 is a Japanese kokuji (a character invented in Japan), built as fire 火 plus field 田 for 'a burned-off dry field'. It is not native to Chinese; in a Chinese reading context it is given the borrowed sound tián, and appears almost only in Japanese names (e.g. the surname 畑中).

register

Used only in Japanese names and loan contexts; it has no role in standard written Chinese.

Components

semantic

火 huǒ

fire

火 'fire' on the left points to slash-and-burn clearing — a dry, fire-cleared field rather than a flooded paddy.

semantic

田 tián

field

田 'field' on the right supplies the core meaning and, in the borrowed Chinese reading, the sound tián. Fire plus field together means 'a dry upland field'.