Kanji N1

稲: rice plant

稲 is a JLPT N1 kanji meaning rice plant, written with 14 strokes. It is read トウ, テ (on) and いね (kun). It is one of the jōyō kanji taught in secondary school. You will see it in 稲 (いね, rice plant) and 稲光 (いなびかり, lightning).

稲

Meanings

  • rice plant
Strokes14
JLPT levelN1
School gradeSecondary school
Frequency#1038 of 2,500

On reading · Kun reading

On reading
  • トウ
  • テ

On'yomi: from Chinese, written in katakana. Used in compound words.

Kun reading
  • いね
  • いな-

Kun'yomi: native Japanese, in hiragana. The faint part is the okurigana, written in kana after the kanji.

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Common words with 稲

The most useful words written with it, easiest first. Every other kanji in them opens its own page.

  • 稲いね

    rice plant (Oryza sativa)

    JLPT N3
  • 稲光いなびかり

    (flash of) lightning

    JLPT N1
  • 稲作いなさく

    rice cultivation; rice crop

  • 水稲すいとう

    wet-land rice

  • 稲田いなだ

    paddy field; rice field

  • 稲穂いなほ

    ear (head) of rice

  • 稲妻いなずま

    lightning; flash of lightning; lightning bolt

  • 稲荷いなり

    Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama)

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Stroke order from KanjiVG © Ulrich Apel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Readings, meanings and words from KANJIDIC2 and JMdict, names from JMnedict, © EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0, and Wikidata, CC0; the Spanish meanings they lack, translated by Naraio from their English, are shared under the same licence. Example sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR. JLPT lists after Jonathan Waller (tanos.co.uk), CC BY. Sentences split into words with IPADIC © NAIST and IPA, through Lindera.