水田|すいでんsuiden[0]heiban (flat)

1. noun(water-filled) paddy field

• Synonym田たNeutralA rice field; can stand alone, as in 「田に水を張る」, and forms compounds like 「田植え」. 「水田」 is the more formal term.
• Synonym田んぼたんぼNeutralA rice paddy; the most common word in everyday speech. 「水田」 is more formal and typical of agricultural statistics.
• Synonym稲田いなだWrittenA field planted with rice; a written word with a literary flavor. 「水田」 is the more objective term.
• Synonym田地でんちWrittenWritten prose for farmland in general — land used as fields, dry fields included. 「水田」 means flooded fields, mainly for rice.
• Antonym畑はたけNeutralA dry field or vegetable plot, standing in contrast to the water-filled rice fields of 「水田」.
• Antonym陸田WrittenA dry field, the opposite of 「水田」; rare.

Use 「水田」 for flooded rice fields, especially in formal or technical writing. In everyday speech say 「田んぼ」; 「田」 also works alone. 「稲田」 is literary, 「田地」 is written prose for farmland in general, and 「畑」 is a dry field.

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