rice plant
稲 centers on the rice plant itself, especially as a crop in the field.
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.
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.
For トウ, imagine a tall rice plant growing in a tower-like paddy: tower -> トウ, and the rice plant reaches high.
lightning; flash of lightning; lightning bolt
rice plant (Oryza sativa)
paddy field; rice field
field of early-blooming (or ripening) rice
Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama)
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early ripening rice
drying rice on a rack; rack for drying rice
rice grasshopper (of genus Oxya)
rice cultivation; rice crop
ear (head) of rice
rice reaping; rice harvesting
wet-land rice
(flash of) lightning
rice blight
Inari (god of harvests, wealth, fertility, etc.)
African rice (Oryza glaberrima)
Champa rice
state-owned rice (ritsuryō system)
the more learned, the more humble; the boughs bearing the most hang lowest