Kanji

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

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: のぎへん

Meaning: grain

Strokes: 5

Examples

Examples with audio

(すいとう)   wet-land rice

(いね)   rice-plant

刈り(いねかり)   rice reaping

作(いなさく)   rice crop

穂(いなほ)   ear of rice

荷(いなり)   Inari shrine

妻(いなづま)   lightning

光(いなびかり)   lightning

*早田(わせだ)   Waseda (place name)

Onyomi Examples

ハサ drying rice on a rack, rack for drying rice

熱病 イモチビョウ rice blight, rice blast

スイトウ wet-land rice

占城 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

いね rice plant (Oryza sativa)

刈り いねかり rice reaping, rice harvesting

つかいね sheaf of rice, bundle of rice plants

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