Character: 田
Modern (Beijing) reading: tián
Preclassic Old Chinese: lhīn
Classic Old Chinese: lhīn
Western Han Chinese: lhjǝ̄n
Eastern Han Chinese: lhiǝ̄n
Early Postclassic Chinese: dhiēn
Middle Postclassic Chinese: dhiēn
Late Postclassic Chinese: dhiēn
Middle Chinese: dien
English meaning : field; field supervisor; measure word for fields; to hunt
Russian meaning[s]: 1) поле; [обрабатываемая] земля, пашня; культивированный; обрабатывать землю; хлебопашество; 2) охотиться; 3) Тянь (фамилия)
Comments: For *lh- cf. Min forms (with secondary palatalization): Chaozhou chaŋ2, Fuzhou cheŋ2, Jianou chaiŋ2; Siam. thɨ́an, Zhuang tɨ̄n (*dhɨan). Used also for a homonymous (and possibly related) *lhīn 'to hunt'; for the derived *lhīn-s, MC dìen (FQ 堂練) 'to cultivate, till; royal domain'.
Radical: 102
Four-angle index: 1713
Karlgren code: 0362 a-c
Jianchuan Bai: -tã3
Dali Bai: -ta3
Bijiang Bai: -der1
Shijing occurrences: 50.3_
