田植え
たうえ · taue · JLPT N2 · noun
planting
🌾 田 (rice paddy) + 植え (planting, from 植える ueru) = rice planting
田 (ta) is a rice paddy and 植え (ue) is the stem of 植える (ueru), to plant. Together they name the act of planting seedlings in a paddy.
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.