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农田 (nóng tián) — farmland, cultivated land

Definition

农田 (nóngtián) is cultivated farmland, emphasizing land actively used for growing crops — broader than 田 (a single field) and more practical than the literary 田园 (pastoral countryside).

noun
farmlandcultivated land
Measure word · 块

Examples

  • 农田。
    Zhè piàn nóng tián zhǒng le hěn duō xiǎo mài.
    This field is planted with a lot of wheat.
  • 农田。
    Bǎo hù nóng tián jiù shì bǎo hù wǒ men de liáng shi lái yuán.
    Protecting farmland means protecting our food source.
  • ，农田。
    Chūn tiān dào le, nóng mín kāi shǐ zài nóng tián shàng máng lù.
    Spring has arrived, and farmers start to get busy on the farmland.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

农nóngagricultural
田tiánfield

农 'agricultural' specifies 田 'field' as cultivated land.

Characters in this word

Two or more meaningful parts placed together so that their meanings combine into a new one.

This origin belongs to the traditional form 農; 农 is its simplified writing.

The traditional form 農 comes from 林 (vegetation) and 辰 (a hoe), showing a hoe among vegetation to remove weeds; the simplified 农 is a later abbreviation.

Open 农 →

A drawing of the thing itself, worn down over three thousand years into a few strokes.

田 looks like a field divided into four sections.

Open 田 →
Appears in
HSK 3.0 Level 6Agriculture & Farming

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