田園

でんえん · denen · JLPT N1 · noun

state

🌾 田 (rice paddy) + 園 (garden) = a garden of rice fields = the countryside

Both characters use their on'yomi readings here: 田 is den and 園 is en. Together they name open land of rice fields outside the towns.

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.

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