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Kotomora

稲

rice plant

JLPTN1StatusJōyō · secondary schoolFrequencyTop 2,000Strokes14

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

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  • 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

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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.