稲
rice plant
Readings
On'yomi
- トウ
- テ
Kun'yomi
- いね
- いな-
Nanori
- いの
- しね
- せ
- な
Meaning
稲 centers on the rice plant itself, especially as a crop in the field.
Most common words using 稲
20 of 58- 稲妻いなずまN1
lightning; flash of lightning; lightning bolt
- 稲いねN3
rice plant (Oryza sativa)
- 稲田いなだ
paddy field; rice field
- 早稲田わせだ
field of early-blooming (or ripening) rice
- 稲荷いなり
Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama)
- 早稲田大学わせだだいがく
Waseda University
- 早稲わせ
early ripening rice
- 稲架はさ
drying rice on a rack; rack for drying rice
- 稲子いなご
rice grasshopper (of genus Oxya)
- 稲作いなさく
rice cultivation; rice crop
- 稲穂いなほ
ear (head) of rice
- 稲刈りいねかり
rice reaping; rice harvesting
- 水稲すいとう
wet-land rice
- 稲光いなびかりN1
(flash of) lightning
- 稲熱いもち
rice blight
- お稲荷さんおいなりさん
Inari (god of harvests, wealth, fertility, etc.)
- アフリカ稲アフリカいね
African rice (Oryza glaberrima)
- 占城稲せんじょうとう
Champa rice
- 官稲かんとう
state-owned rice (ritsuryō system)
- 実るほど頭の下がる稲穂かなみのるほどあたまのさがるいなほかな
the more learned, the more humble; the boughs bearing the most hang lowest
Study
Etymology
稲 combines 禾 (grain plant) with a right side that historically represented a mortar or pounding tool, suggesting rice being processed. The modern right side is simplified to 旧.
Meaning mnemonic
The grain radical 禾 on the left marks this as a crop plant. The right side looks like an old mortar 旧, so picture rice grains being pounded in an old mortar: that's the rice plant.
Reading mnemonic
For トウ, imagine a tall rice plant growing in a tower-like paddy: tower -> トウ, and the rice plant reaches high.