Question

佃 つくだ 0 2193 (none) "Not so long ago, if Mr T was working in a field, he would have been a slave." 2248

Accepted Answer

テン cultivated rice field S+ 人: person田: rice field; rice paddy work a field "The first television show that Mr T ever worked on was a slavery period drama. Operating on the assumption that all black people look alike, the director decided to save on his budget by just hiring one black person. In each scene requiring slaves in the background to work a field, he would put Mr T in the rice paddy in the background. Then when they changed the scene, he would simply put Mr T there too - no changing clothes, no CG - just the same dude in the background of EVERY scene."

Kanji	佃
Onyomi	テン
Kunyomi	つくだ
English	cultivated rice field
JLPT Level	0
Jouyou Grade	S+
Frequency	2193
Components	人: person 田: rice field; rice paddy
Traditional Form	(none)
Keyword	work a field
Koohii Story 1	"Not so long ago, if Mr T was working in a field, he would have been a slave."
Koohii Story 2	"The first television show that Mr T ever worked on was a slavery period drama. Operating on the assumption that all black people look alike, the director decided to save on his budget by just hiring one black person. In each scene requiring slaves in the background to work a field, he would put Mr T in the rice paddy in the background. Then when they changed the scene, he would simply put Mr T there too - no changing clothes, no CG - just the same dude in the background of EVERY scene."
RTK Index (new)	2248

Rice Mr T Field Paddy Work Black Background