稲 means “rice plant”

いね · ine

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

いね, いな-

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

トウ, テ

JLPT N1 · Taught in secondary school · 14 strokes

The story

Grain (禾) beside a hand (爫) reaching down: picture fingers combing through ripe stalks. 稲 is the rice plant in the paddy, 稲刈り is the autumn harvest, and 稲荷, the god of rice, watches over thousands of shrines guarded by stone foxes.

Used in 稲 (ine, rice plant), 稲作 (inasaku, rice farming), and 稲刈り (inekari, rice harvest)

More from Paddy & Pasture

• 牧 pasture
• 飼 keep
• 壌 soil
• 培 cultivate
• 肥 fertilizer
• 俵 straw bale
• 栽 plant
• 拓 clear land
• 鎌 sickle
• 穫 harvest
• 穂 ear of grain
• 芽 bud

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