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Those would probably be more helpful as Wiktionary links:

rain - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/雨

field - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/田

thunder - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/雷

Note that the "glyph origin" section describes 雷 as an ancient simplification of the phono-semantic compound 靁, where 畾 indicates the pronunciation. Any relation to rice paddies is probably a post-hoc rationalization.

rice - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/稲

wife - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/妻

lightning - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/稲妻




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