Wu Collection, Upper Volume Radical: Field (tián) 畋 Kangxi stroke count: 9 Page 760, Entry 17 Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Pronounced tian. Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), Rhymes Compendium (Yunhui), and Correct Rhymes (Zhengyun): Pronounced tian, reading is the same as field. Explaining Graphs and Analyzing Characters (Shuowen Jiezi): Refers to leveling or cultivating land. Book of Documents (Shangshu): Now you still live in your own houses and cultivate your own fields. Sub-commentary (Shu): To prepare and manage land is called tian. Nowadays, people call earning a living by farming tian-shi. Also, Broad Rhymes (Guangyun): Refers to hunting birds and beasts. Book of Documents (Shangshu): Hunting beyond the Luo River. Zhang Heng, Western Capital Rhapsody (Xijing Fu): Indulging in pleasure and hunting, that joy is truly magnificent. Sometimes written in a variant form (dian). Also written as variant forms. Commonly used interchangeably with field or to farm (tian/dian). Also, Broad Rhymes (Guangyun), Collected Rhymes (Jiyun), and Rhymes Compendium (Yunhui): Pronounced dian. The meaning is the same. The original character was written with the radical for to strike (pu).