Tian (Pinyin: tián) is a kind of words (commonly used words) in the General Standard of Chinese. This word first appeared in Oracle Bone Inscriptions and inscriptions and hieroglyphics of Shang Dynasty. Its ancient glyph is like a farmland, buildings or ditches criss-crossing. The original meaning is the land where crops are planted, and then it is extended to things related to agriculture.
"Tian" is also the radical of Chinese characters, and the characters from "Tian" are mostly related to hunting and farming, such as border, border, border and town.
Etymological evolution
Tian, pictograph. The glyph is like drawing nine squares on a big ridge, representing countless mineral fields (vertical lines represent vertical ridges) and strange fields (horizontal lines represent horizontal ridges). Some Oracle Bone Inscriptions are like deformed acres. Simplified Chinese character Oracle Bone Inscriptions simplified a building with three horizontal lines and three vertical lines into a "ten" character with one horizontal line and one vertical line. The original meaning of its word is criss-crossing farmland, which was later extended to a verb, meaning farming, and later written as "tenancy". There are also fiefs given by ancient rulers to relatives and servants and ancient plot units.
As well as production activity units and ore-bearing zones. The inscriptions on bronze and seal script inherited the Oracle Bone Inscriptions glyph. Ancient books sometimes use "Tian" instead of "Yi". This is like a hunting war and the shape of a minefield. Oracle Bone Inscriptions has different forms of complexity and simplicity, but later generations mainly inherited simplified characters, only the changes of strokes in past dynasties, and the structure remains unchanged from ancient times to the present. The original meaning of "field" refers to the land used for farming.