佃 - Dong Chinese dictionary

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diàn, tián

tenant farmer

A person 亻 on the farm 田; 田 also provides the pronunciation

Components

亻 Meaning component

rén

person

tián

field

Evolution

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Bronze script

Late Western Zhou (~800 BC)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)

Regular script

Modern

Definitions

diàn

tenant farmer; be a tenant farmer; farmer

tián

to cultivate; to hunt

Most common words with 佃

Freq.	Word	Meaning
	佃农	tenant farmer
	佃	farmer
	佃户	tenant farmer
	租佃	to rent out one's land (to tenant farmers)

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese	Middle Chinese	Pinyin	Gloss
*lˤiŋ-s	denH	diàn	hunt

Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

3245th most common character in books

Miscellaneous

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