Illustration: Beside a Japanese farming hamlet, a farmer stands ankle-deep in a flooded rice paddy, pressing a small bundle of seedlings into the soft mud. Orderly rows of young rice extend across the shallow water, enclosed by raised earthen paths and supplied by a narrow irrigation channel.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

田たんぼ

tanbo

rice field

Example sentences

  1. この辺あたりは昔むかし、田たんぼだったんだよ。

    There used to be rice fields around here.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 津波つなみは田たんぼを押おし流ながし、町まちは水浸みずびたしになりました。

    Tsunamis swept through rice fields and flooded the towns.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 家いえの近ちかくに田たんぼがあるからさ、この時期じきになると一晩中ひとばんじゅうカエルのケロケロ鳴なく声こえが、よく聞きこえてくるんだよ。

    Since there are rice paddies near my house, I often hear frogs croaking all night long this time of year.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 田

  • 田rice field; rice paddyOnデンKunた

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