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Definition
- field
- farm
Compounds (68)
interior; inside; inner; lining; inside (clothing); measure of length (traditional, currently called 市里); li (Chinese mile); 500 meters (modern)
interior; inside; internal; inner; lining; inside (clothing); also written interior; inside; internal; inner; lining; inside (clothing); also written 裏|里[li3]
li (Chinese mile); 500 meters (modern); home; hometown; village; neighborhood; administrative unit
to remain; to stay; to leave (eg a message); to study abroad; to detain; to retain; to pay attention (to); to reserve; to keep; to save
to draw; drawing; to paint; painting; picture; to mark; to sign; stroke (in a Chinese character); to delimit
foreign country; foreigner; foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier (for occurrences (of an action or deed)); measure word; -fold (as in twofold etc); kind; sort
suburbs or outskirts; one of the five degrees of official mourning attire in dynastic China; official in charge of fields (old)
used in Japanese names with phonetic value hatake, bata etc; dry field (i.e. not paddy field)
Related words (69)
exercise book for practicing Chinese character handwriting (each page being a grid of blank cells divided into quadrants, like the character 田)
field of blood; battlefield; hateful place; Aceldama (field bought by Judas Iscariot with his 30 pieces of silver in Matthew 27:7)
(lit.) blue seas where once was mulberry fields (idiom, from 史记, Record of the Grand Historian); time brings great changes; life's vicissitudes
abbr. for 瓜田不納履,李下不整冠|瓜田不纳履,李下不整冠[gua1 tian2 bu4 na4 lu:3 , li3 xia4 bu4 zheng3 guan1]
"land to the tiller", post-liberation land reform movement instigated by the CCP
Proverbs (1)
(lit.) don't let one's own fertile water flow into others' field; (fig.) keep the goodies within the family (proverb)
Idioms (4)
(lit.) to be interested exclusively in the acquisition of estate (idiom); (fig.) to have no lofty aspirations in life
(lit.) the blue sea turned into mulberry fields (idiom); (fig.) the transformations of the world
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