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(Not a native Chinese speaker). 兔/rabbit is marginal to me - I don't think I would even register it as a character unless it was in the right context. The other
by elil17 4y ago
(Not a native Chinese speaker). 兔/rabbit is marginal to me - I don't think I would even register it as a character unless it was in the right context. The others are perfectly legible. For the bold-face 猫/cat (the first one), you do technically lose some "content carrying form" as the 田 becomes a shape that does not appear in Chinese (sideways 曰), but I don't think that would actually confuse anyone in the context of the rest of the character.
- bolangi 4y agoIn Japanese 田 is extremely common, meaning rice paddy, pronounced ta in names like Tanaka (田中, middle of rice paddy). It is simplified from the Chinese.
- elil17 4y ago田 means field in Chinese. Also a very common radical (which should be absolutely unsurprising given that they're more or less the same character set).