田|たta[1]atamadaka (head-high)

1. nounrice field

• Synonym田んぼたんぼNeutralColloquial everyday word for a rice paddy, the most common choice in speech; 「田」 tends to appear in compounds or in written style.
• Synonym水田すいでんNeutralRefers to a flooded paddy field; mostly used in agriculture and geography contexts.
• Synonym稲田いなだWrittenWritten term for a field planted with rice; carries a literary flavor.
• Synonym田地でんちWrittenWritten word for farmland used as rice fields or dry fields, as in 「田地」「田畑」; also found in general narration.
• Antonym畑はたけNeutralRefers to dry fields and vegetable plots, as opposed to the flooded paddies of 「田」.

In everyday speech, say 「田んぼ」 for a rice paddy; 「田」 mostly appears in compounds like 「田植え」 or in writing. 「水田」 suits agriculture and geography, 「稲田」 is literary, 「田地」 is a written word for farmland, and 「畑」 is dry fields and vegetable plots.

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1. (た) 主おもに稲いねを栽培さいばいするための農地のうち。特とくに、成長せいちょう期きにおいて水みずを張はるもの（水田すいでん）をいう。稲いねの他た、藺草いぐさやわさびの農園のうえんにもこの表現ひょうげんが用もちいられる。田たんぼ。