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稲 — Rice plant

JLPT N114 strokesSecondary school#1038 most used
rice plant
On’yomiトウ (tou)
On’yomi (te)
Kun’yomiいね (ine)
Kun’yomiいな- (ina)

Stroke order (14 strokes)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

Watch the strokes draw themselves in the correct order — numbers mark where each stroke starts. Diagram from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA).

Common words using 稲

WordReadingMeaning
いね
ine
rice plant (Oryza sativa)
稲作いなさく
inasaku
rice cultivation; rice crop
稲妻いなずま
inazuma
lightning; flash of lightning; lightning bolt
水稲すいとう
suitou
wet-land rice
稲田いなだ
inada
paddy field; rice field
稲穂いなほ
inaho
ear (head) of rice

Study notes

稲 is a JLPT N1 kanji written with 14 strokes. It is taught at secondary-school level in Japan. Ranked #1038 of the 2,500 most frequent kanji in newspapers. On’yomi (音読み) are Chinese-derived readings mostly used in compound words; kun’yomi (訓読み) are native Japanese readings, with any highlighted part written in hiragana after the kanji (okurigana).

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