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畔 = 田 + 半

畔 is a Japanese kanji written with 10 strokes, listed here under the keyword “paddy ridge”. It is built from 田 (rice field) and 半 (half). In Remembering the Kanji by James W. Heisig it is frame 1288.

Keyword
paddy ridge
RTK frame
1288
Strokes
10
On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading)
ハン
Kun'yomi (native Japanese reading)
あぜ, くろ, ほとり
Script
Japanese kanji
Also known as
гребень
Same glyph as a Chinese hanzi
畔 boundary path dividing fields

Decomposition

Primary decomposition

  1. 田 rice field
  2. 半 half

How to find 畔 without knowing its reading

On KumiJi Glyph Explorer, open the parts search and type “rice field” + “half”. 畔 is among the results, together with every other character containing the same shapes.

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