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Kanji Detail for 穀 - "grain"

穀

  • Meaning

    穀 means "grain." Also associated with harvest, good.

    1. Grain - Cereal crops; staple foods.

    2. Harvest - The gathered crop; produce.

    3. Good - Auspicious; favorable.

  • Words using 穀

    • 穀物 こくもつ Listen grain; cereal; corn
    • 米穀 べいこく Listen rice

  • Four-character idioms with 穀

    • 五穀豊穣 ごこくほうじょう Listen huge harvest (of the five grains); bumper crop; abundant crop

  • Tattoo check: 穀

    • Verified meaning: grain
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Also carries these associations: harvest, good

    A single kanji rarely maps one-to-one onto an English word. Read the meanings and associations above as a set — a character that fits the dictionary definition can still carry a connotation you did not intend.

  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    cereals; grain

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    corn, grain, cereal; lucky

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    grain; corn

    Make Me a Hanzi Open-source Chinese character data

    valley, gorge, ravine

  • Onyomi

    tip

    koku(コク) コク

  • Kunyomi

    tip
    none

  • Strokes

    tip

    14 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    禾 (nogi・nogihen)

  • Related Keywords

    grain harvest good barley cereal corn crops flour kernel millet oats rice rye seed wheat

Sentences including 穀

  • The birds pecked grains.

  • He deals in grain.

  • The peasant scattered the seeds of grain.

  • Mr Tatuya deals in grain.

  • They have plenty of grain in store.

  • The family were all out reaping the corn.

  • The land yields heavy crops.

  • Rye was called the grain of poverty.

  • Birds feed on berries and corn seeds.

  • We import grain from Canada every year.

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