佃 [－]

Jyutping tin4
Pinyin diàn

Definitions (CC-CANTO)
  1. farmer/to hunt/to rent land/to cultivate

佃 [－]

Jyutping din6
Pinyin tián

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. to cultivate
  2. to hunt
Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. character, literary
    to till; to cultivate

佃 [－]

Jyutping din6
Pinyin diàn

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. farmer
Definitions (CC-CANTO)
  1. farmer/to hunt/to rent land/to cultivate
Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. character
    land rent
  2. character, dialectal
    to rent
  3. character
    to rent and till land from a landlord
  4. character
    a surname
Definitions (Unihan)
  1. tenant farmer
  2. be a tenant farmer
  3. Cangjie Input
    OW
Examples (Wiktionary)
  1. Mandarin
    去年七八月间，地主还有好多退佃另佃的事。十月以后，无人敢退佃了。
    去年七八月間，地主還有好多退佃另佃的事。十月以後，無人敢退佃了。
    qù nián qī bā yuè jiān ， dì zhǔ hái yǒu hǎo duō tuì diàn lìng diàn de shì ． shí yuè yǐ hòu ， wú rén gǎn tuì diàn le ．
    • In July and August of last year there were still many instances of landlords cancelling tenancies and re-letting the land. But after October nobody dared cancel a tenancy.
  2. Mandarin
    无情的地主总是要从佃农身上取得东西，却不肯花几个大钱修理塘坝，让塘干旱，饿死佃农，他们却只知收租。
    無情的地主總是要從佃農身上取得東西，卻不肯花幾個大錢修理塘壩，讓塘乾旱，餓死佃農，他們卻只知收租。
    wú qíng de dì zhǔ zǒng shì yào cóng diàn nóng shēn shàng qǔ dé dōng xi ， què bù kěn huā jǐ ge dà qián xiū lǐ táng bà ， ràng táng gān hàn ， è sǐ diàn nóng ， tā men què zhǐ zhī shōu zū ．
    • The ruthless landlords were always out to take what they could from the tenant-peasants and would never spend even a few coppers on embankment repairs; they would leave the ponds to dry up and the tenant-peasants to starve, caring about nothing but the rent.