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稲

稲 — readings, stroke count and radical

Stroke order

Stroke order data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Meaning (Japanese)

  1. いね。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Origin of the character

「稻」の行書体に由来する略体（「臼」→「旧」の類推）。「稻」については稻#字源の項目を参照。

Character meanings and origins come from the Japanese Wiktionary.

Meaning

rice plant

English glosses from KANJIDIC2.

Readings

On (Sino-Japanese)
  • トウJHS
  • テ
Kun (native)
  • いねJHS
  • いな〜JHS
Nanori (used in names)
  • いの
  • しね
  • せ
  • な
Other languages
  • 拼音dao4
  • 한글do
  • Hán-ViệtĐạo

Labels show the school stage at which each Jōyō reading is taught.

Basics

Strokes
14 strokes
Radical
禾(のぎ)
JIS level
Level 1
JLPT (old scale)
Level 1
Unicode
U+7A32

Components

Components this kanji is made of. Follow them to find similar kanji.

Composition (IDS): left–right ⿰禾𱬹

Words using this kanji

  • 稲いねイネ科植物の一種で、一年草である。穀物である米を収穫するために栽培されている。ジャポニカ種とインディカ種があり、日本では一般に前者が栽培され、作付面積が最も広い。rice plant (Oryza sativa)
  • 稲作いなさく稲を栽培すること。 稲の作柄。rice cultivation, rice crop
  • 稲田いなだpaddy field, rice field
  • 稲穂いなほear (head) of rice
  • 稲妻いなずま「いなずま」を参照。lightning, flash of lightning, lightning bolt
  • 稲荷いなりInari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama), Inari shrine, Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto), fox (said to be messengers of Inari)
  • 稲刈りいねかりrice reaping, rice harvesting
  • 稲光いなびかり「いなびかり」を参照。(flash of) lightning
  • 稲子いなごいなごの漢字表記。rice grasshopper (of genus Oxya), grasshopper, locust (of family Catantopidae)
  • 稲熱いもちrice blight
  • 稲木いなぎrice-drying rack
  • 稲門とうもんalumni of Waseda University
  • 稲魂うかのみたまgod of food (esp. of rice)
  • 稲置いなぎregional official responsible for rice storage (under the Yamato court), Inagi (lowest of the eight hereditary titles)
  • 稲虫いなむしrice pest
  • 稲架はさdrying rice on a rack, rack for drying rice
  • 稲雀いなすずめsparrows flocking on ripening rice fields
  • 稲束いなづかsheaf of rice, bundle of rice plants
  • 稲粟とうぞくrice and millet
  • 稲むらいなむらstack of rice straw, rick, cock

Words starting with this kanji, most common first.

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Variants

Lookup codes

SKIP
1-5-9
Four Corner
2296.9
Spahn–Hadamitzky
5d9.2
Heisig
976
Nelson
3294