甸
diàn
#2,583 most
frequent character
suburbs or outskirts
Character breakdown
Source: Make Me a Hanzi.
甸 shows a leaning person 勹 by a field 田; 田 also supplies the sound. It first meant to manage fields. The sense grew to pasture and then to suburb.
Drawn as: leaning person; field and farmland
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