Question

畦 0 田: rice field; rice paddy圭: square jewel; corner; angle; edge paddy-field ridge "[+mantixen] The ordinary 畔 paddy-ridge (#1204) dissects the field by dividing it in half, but the paddy-field ridge runs around the outside & is covered in ivy. Disambiguate by noting that the hyphen in 'paddy-ridge' divides the word itself in half (five letters each side) but 'paddy-field ridge' has five extra letters on the right, the ridge itself, in fact, the part covered in ivy."

Accepted Answer

あぜ, うね S+ (none) Ivy grows on the paddy-field ridge encircling the rice field as opposed to the intra-field paddy ridge that divides it in half. 2571

Kanji	畦
Kunyomi	あぜ, うね
JLPT Level	0
Jouyou Grade	S+
Components	田: rice field; rice paddy 圭: square jewel; corner; angle; edge
Traditional Form	(none)
Keyword	paddy-field ridge
Koohii Story 1	Ivy grows on the paddy-field ridge encircling the rice field as opposed to the intra-field paddy ridge that divides it in half.
Koohii Story 2	"[+mantixen] The ordinary 畔 paddy-ridge (#1204) dissects the field by dividing it in half, but the paddy-field ridge runs around the outside & is covered in ivy. Disambiguate by noting that the hyphen in 'paddy-ridge' divides the word itself in half (five letters each side) but 'paddy-field ridge' has five extra letters on the right, the ridge itself, in fact, the part covered in ivy."
RTK Index	2571

Ridge Rice Paddy Field Paddy Field Divides Covered Letters