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On-Yomi: — Kun-Yomi: はた、はたけ、-ばたけ

Koohii stories:

1) [Christine_Tham] 30-7-2007(245): Many farms are created by first setting FIRE over the land to clear the land for the FIELDS.

2) [CharleyGarrett] 16-7-2007(49): When creating a farm, the prospective farmer must first set fire to the forest to clear the ground. Only then can he plow the fields. Fire before fields to make a farm.

3) [kashikoi] 9-1-2009(45): This kanji actually makes a boatload of sense. In Japan, rice farmers are constantly making little fires on their rice farms burning up all the old stalks and things probably to be used as fertilizer. In moving to Japan, I found this practice to be very new and odd to me. So I would venture to guess that's exactly where this kanji comes from. If not, it certainly makes it really easy to remember.

4) [SammyB] 5-10-2008(14): Crap! the field in our neighbour's farm is on fire!

5) [johngwk] 23-6-2010(5): On a Japanese farm, fire is often set to the rice fields (after harvest).

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