Meaning & readings
rice plant
Origin
The character 稲 combines the left component 禾, which is a picture of grain stalks and classifies this character as being about cereal crops. On the right is a sound hint component that suggests how the character should be pronounced, roughly like "tou" or "te." Together, this phono-semantic combination — a meaning classifier plus a pronunciation guide — creates a character that specifically refers to the rice plant, one of the most important grain crops in East Asian agriculture.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Components
- 禾
- 稲right
A sound hint component points at the character’s pronunciation, not its meaning — don’t read a meaning into it.
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 14
- Kangxi radical
- 115
- Grade
- Jōyō (secondary school)
- Frequency rank
- #1038 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 1
- Unicode
- U+07A32