Definition

1. Verb:
   • To measure land (specifically agricultural fields): "đạc điền" refers to the specific action of measuring agricultural land or fields, often for administrative, tax, or ownership purposes. This term is historical and formal.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Các quan lại triều Nguyễn thường phải đi đạc điền để lập sổ bộ. (Nguyen dynasty officials often had to go measure fields to establish land registers.)
  • Công việc đạc điền giúp xác định chính xác diện tích canh tác. (The work of measuring fields helps to accurately determine the cultivated area.)

Advanced Usage

• This term is largely archaic and found in historical or legal contexts related to traditional land administration, such as in dynastic edicts, old land records (sổ đạc điền), or historical narratives.
• It implies a formal, official surveying process, not casual measurement.

Variants and Related Words

• Đo đạc (verb): to survey, to measure (a more general modern term for measuring land or other things).
• Trắc địa (noun): geodesy, surveying (the scientific field).
• Sổ đạc điền (noun phrase): land register, cadastral record (the document resulting from the measurement).

Synonyms

• Đo ruộng đất: to measure fields and land (a descriptive synonym).
• Khảo sát địa chính: to conduct cadastral survey (a modern administrative term).

Notes on Meaning

• The core meaning is specifically "to measure fields" (điền = field). It is not used for measuring objects, length, or other general purposes.
• The term carries a connotation of official duty and is tied to the feudal or pre-modern system of land taxation and management.

verb

1. to measure