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Kanji Detail for 稲 - "rice"

稲

  • Meaning

    稲 means "rice."

    1. Rice - One of the five grains.

    2. Rice plant - The plant that produces rice.

    3. Paddy - Rice grown in flooded fields.

  • Words using 稲

    • 稲作 いなさく Listen rice cultivation; rice crop
    • 水稲 すいとう Listen wet-land rice
    • 稲田 いなだ Listen paddy field; rice field

  • Origin of 稲

    禾, the grain plant, beside 舀, which lends the reading to: the rice plant — the character of 稲作, rice culture itself.

    How to remember it: Grain 禾 scooped by the handful from the mortar — the rice plant, already halfway to dinner.

    Sources: en.wiktionary.org · mojinavi.com

  • Tattoo check: 稲

    • Verified meaning: rice
    • Official Jōyō kanji — a standard character every Japanese reader recognises
    • Used in real Japanese given names (read いち, いな, いね)

    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.

  • Name readings of 稲

    Given names 稲(いね)Listen

    Surnames 稲(いち)Listen 稲(いな)Listen

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  • Dictionary Citations

    The meaning above is based on the following sources:

    KANJIDIC2 A comprehensive Japanese-English kanji dictionary

    rice plant

    Unihan Unicode Han Database for CJK characters

    rice growing in field, rice plant

    CC-CEDICT A Chinese-English dictionary

    variant of 稻[dao4]

  • Onyomi

    tip

    te(テ) テ

    toh(トウ) トウ

  • Kunyomi

    tip

    ina(いな) いな

    ine(いね) いね

  • Strokes

    tip

    14 strokes

  • Radical

    tip

    禾 (nogi・nogihen)

  • Related Keywords

    rice paddy grain crop harvest agriculture cultivation farming field straw staple

Sentences including 稲

  • The lightning flashed.

  • Lightning flashed in the sky.

  • I saw flashes of lightning in the distance.

  • He grows rice.

  • The rice is coming well this year.

  • There was thunder and lightning last night.

  • The peasants were planting rice.

  • Lightning precedes thunder.

  • Lightning can be dangerous.

  • The flash of lightning precedes the sound of thunder.

More kanji with the radical 禾 (nogi・nogihen)

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