肥田 Origin — Dong Chinese Dictionary

féitián

fertile land

féi fat

Depicts a person (卩) with extra flesh (肉) on their body.

Components

⺼ Iconic component

ròu meat, flesh

⺼ is a component form of 肉.

卩 Iconic component

jié person kneeling

Modern form looks like 巴.

Change in form

Due to historical stylistic changes, this component is less similar to 卩 than it was in ancient scripts.

Character Evolution

Seal form — Seal Warring States (Chu) 475-221 BC

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Sound (0 of 1 verified)

淝

Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	bj+j	[b][ə]r	fat (adj.)

說文解字

《說文》：“肥，多肉也。从肉，从卪。”

Sources

Character origin: 漢語多功能字庫
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

tián field

Pictograph of a field.

Character Evolution

Bronze form — Bronze Early Western Zhou ~1000 BC

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Meaning (8 of 27 verified)

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Historical Pronunciations

	Middle Chinese	Old Chinese	Gloss
Baxter-Sagart	den	lˤiŋ	field; to hunt

說文解字

《說文》：“田，陳也，樹穀曰田。象四口，十，阡陌之制也。”

Sources

Character origin: 季旭昇《說文新證》p.914
Readings & variants: Unicode
Historical pronunciations: Baxter-Sagart
Historical images: Academia Sinica
Etymology: Shuowen Jiezi (說文解字)

肥 féi fat

Components

Character Evolution

Component uses

Sound (0 of 1 verified)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

田 tián field

Character Evolution

Component uses

Meaning (8 of 27 verified)

Iconic (8)

Sound (2 of 6 verified)

Deleted (1)

Simplified (1)

Historical Pronunciations

說文解字

Sources

féi fat

tián field