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稲 means 'rice plant'

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Strokes : 14    Frequency: 1238   JLPT: N1    Usefulness: 5    Study set: 5-15    Grade: 8   Intermediate lesson: -    Beginner lesson: -   Begins 35 words   Used in 46 words   Used in 1181 names   Not used as a component
Jōyō (常用)
Common readings
On
   トウ
Kun
   いね rice plant   いな-
Name
   せ
Additional readings
On    テ
Name    いの   しね   な
Variants
稻 (kyujitai)  
Notes
A Joy o' Kanji essay is available for 稲 - click the badge to download
This kanji has quite a split personality. Growing rice (稲) is a deeply down-to-earth pursuit. But 稲 is also linked to fanciful notions that lightning impregnates rice and that tofu-loving foxes are messengers for the god Inari (稲荷). He is reputed to help with crops, health, sex, and money, so Inari shrines abound, steeped in fox statues and other symbols—all a far cry from farmers’ earthy concerns.
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Components
⿰  禾 grain  ⿱  ⺤ (爪) claw  旧 (舊) former  
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穏 calm  
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Most useful words by reading
In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 稲 is used 5 times, read 3 ways.
Across all words in Japanese, 稲 is used 37 times, read 4 ways (with 1 variation).
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トウ : 4 words FIND ALL
す い と う 0
noun
wet-land rice
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テ : 1 word FIND ALL
な か て 0
Most common form: 中生
noun
1. mid-season crops; mid-season rice; mid-season vegetables
2. metacarpus  (anatomical term)
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いね : 12 words FIND ALL
い ね 1
noun
rice plant
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いな- (read as いな) : 17 words FIND ALL
い な ず ま 0
noun
lightning; flash of lightning; lightning bolt
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せ: 3 words. FIND ALL
わ せ だ 1 わ せ だ 0
noun
field of early-blooming (or ripening) rice
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An additional せ less common words include 稲 but the reading has not yet been categorized.
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Additional data
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稲
トウ   いね rice plant   いな-    
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旧
キュウ    former, old   
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丨
stick   
日
ニチ   ジツ   sun; day   ひ    -か    
⺤
つめ claw; fingernail   
禾
grain
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