田
tián · HSK 6
field
🌾 The character 田 looks like a grid of plots divided by paths — a field from above
Four squares formed by a cross inside a box, exactly how rice paddies are sectioned by walkways and irrigation channels. Tián sounds like 'tea-en,' and tea grows in terraced fields.
田 — enclosure 囗 + cross 十 (field grid)
田 is a pictograph of a cultivated field divided by raised paths or irrigation ditches into plots, shown as a square with a cross inside. Its original sense was 'farmland,' which it still carries today, and it also serves as a common surname.