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Jōyō kanji, Taught in junior high

JLPT level: N1

1038 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 14

Meaning: rice plant

Kunyomi: いね, いな-

Onyomi: トウ, テ

Composition: 禾 爫 旧

稲

Radical

Radical: 禾

Reading: のぎへん

Meaning: grain

Strokes: 5

⽲

Examples

Examples with audio

水稲(すいとう)   wet-land rice

稲(いね)   rice-plant

稲刈り(いねかり)   rice reaping

稲作(いなさく)   rice crop

稲穂(いなほ)   ear of rice

稲荷(いなり)   Inari shrine

稲妻(いなづま)   lightning

稲光(いなびかり)   lightning

*早稲田(わせだ)   Waseda (place name)

Onyomi Examples

稲架 (ハサ) drying rice on a rack, rack for drying rice

稲粟 (トウゾク) rice and millet

水稲 (スイトウ) wet-land rice

占城稲 (センジョウトウ) Champa rice

中手 (ナカテ) mid-season crops, mid-season rice, mid-season vegetables, metacarpus

奥手 (オクテ) late-growing rice, late-ripening crops, late-blooming flowers, late developer (e.g. child who reaches puberty late), late bloomer

Kunyomi Examples

稲 (いね) rice plant (Oryza sativa)

稲刈り (いねかり) rice reaping, rice harvesting

束稲 (つかいね) sheaf of rice, bundle of rice plants

アフリカ稲 (アフリカいね) African rice (Oryza glaberrima)

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