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Rice field 田 / Rice Field 田んほ/ Rice Field 水田??????
Hi everyone.
I started to learn kanji with the vocabulary and there are three word for one concept ???
What is the difference between 田 and 田んほ and 水田 ? All of them mean "rice field" ?
Aug 7, 2015 6:29 PM
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Correction
田んほ→田んぼ
Answer
Yes. All of them mean "rice field".
田<た>・・・(original Japanese) written language
田んぼ<たんぼ>・・・(usual/casual form of 田<た>)spoken language
水田<すいでん>・・・(loan word from Chinese) formal/stiff word
August 7, 2015
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