稲

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See also: 稻
稲 U+7A32, 稲
CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-7A32
← 稱
 		CJK Unified Ideographs 稳 →

Translingual

Glyph origin

Variant of 稻. The component 旧 is a variant of 臼.

The Japanese usage is of reform (shinjitai) nature.

Han character

稲 (Kangxi radical 115, 禾+9, 14 strokes, cangjie input 竹木月中日 (HDBLA), composition ⿰禾𱬹)

References

  • Kangxi Dictionary: not present, would follow page 856, character 32
  • Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 25187
  • Dae Jaweon: page 1282, character 11
  • Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 4, page 2618, character 6
  • Unihan data for U+7A32

Chinese

For pronunciation and definitions of 稲 – see 稻.
(This character is a variant form of 稻).

Japanese

Shinjitai

稲

Kyūjitai

稻

Kanji

稲

(Jōyō kanji, shinjitai kanji, kyūjitai form 稻)

  1. rice plant

Readings

Compounds

Etymology 1

Kanji in this term
稲
いね
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
稻 (kyūjitai)
 イネ on Japanese Wikipedia
 Oryza sativa on Wikipedia

⟨i1ne⟩ → /ine/

From Old Japanese. Attested in the Man'yōshū of circa 759 CE.[1] In turn, from Proto-Japonic *inay.

Pronunciation

Noun

稲(いね) or 稲(イネ) • (ine) 

  1. the Asian rice plant, Oryza sativa
    • c. 759, Man’yōshū, book 14, poem 3459:
      , text here
      伊祢(いね)都氣波(つけば)可加流安我手乎(かかるあがてを)許余比毛可(こよひもか)等能乃和久胡我(とののわくごが)等里弖奈氣可武(とりてなげかむ) [Man'yōgana]
      稲(いね)舂(つ)けばかかる我(あ)が手(て)を今宵(こよひ)もか殿(との)の若子(わくご)が取(と)りて嘆(なげ)かむ [Modern spelling]
      ine tsukeba kakaru aga te o koyoi mo ka tono no wakugo ga torite nagekamu
      As my hands are chapped from polishing rice, I wonder if the master’s son will take them and lament again tonight
  2. a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) with various designs of rice plants
Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary).

Derived terms
Idioms

See also

Proper noun

稲(いね) • (Ine) 

  1. (dated) a female given name
  2. a surname

Etymology 2

Kanji in this term
稲
いな
Grade: S
kun'yomi
Alternative spelling
稻 (kyūjitai)

From Old Japanese.

Commonly found in compounds, rarely in isolation.

Noun

稲(いな) • (ina) ←いな (ina)?

  1. prefixal bound form of いね (ine, “rice plant”)
Derived terms

Proper noun

稲(いな) • (Ina) ←いな (Ina)?

  1. a surname

Etymology 3

Kanji in this term
稲
Grade: S
irregular
Alternative spelling
稻 (kyūjitai)
For pronunciation and definitions of 稲 – see the following entry.
【しね】
suffixal bound form of いね (ine, “rice plant”)
(This term, 稲, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)

References

  1. ^ “稲”, in 日本国語大辞典 [Nihon Kokugo Daijiten]‎ (in Japanese), concise edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2006
  2. ^ Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1974), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Second edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō
  3. ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

Korean

Hanja

稲 • (do) (hangeul 도, revised do, McCune–Reischauer to, Yale to)

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