畑 means “field, farm”

はたけ · hatake

Also: garden, one's specialty

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

はた, はたけ

JLPT N3 · Taught in grade 3 · 9 strokes

The story

Fire (火) beside a field (田): a kanji made in Japan for dry fields once cleared by burning. A 畑 grows vegetables, not rice, and 畑違い, a different field, means something is outside your expertise.

Used in 花畑 (hanabatake, flower field), 田畑 (tahata, farmland), and 畑違い (hatachigai, outside one's field)

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