野
の · no · JLPT N3 · noun
field
🌾 野 = 里 village + 予: the open land beyond the village, with no houses
里 is made of 田 rice field and 土 earth, so it brings the farmland meaning; 予 (yo) only gives the old sound, as in the on-reading ya. For the kun-reading no, the hook is a field with no houses on it. It appears in 野原 nohara, a grassy field.
野 — 里 (village) + 予 (phonetic)
Originally written 埜 (forest 林 over earth 土), depicting wild land beyond cultivated fields. The modern form 野 combines 里 (village/settled land) with 予 as a phonetic component, keeping the meaning of open country, wilderness, or untamed.