稲

音読おんよみ: トウ

訓読くんよみ: いね・いな

画数かくすう: 14

部首ぶしゅ: のぎへん(禾)

Meaning

Rice Plant.

  • いね — rice plant
  • 稲穂いなほ — ear of rice
  • 稲作いなさく — rice cultivation
  • 稲刈いねがり — rice harvesting
  • 早稲わせ — early-ripening rice
  • 水稲すいとう — wet-field rice
  • 陸稲りくとう — dry-field rice

稲 combines the grain radical 禾(のぎへん) with a phonetic element that gives the reading トウ. With 禾 signaling “cereal plants,” the compound points specifically to the rice plant—central to Japanese agriculture and culture.

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