Vita:稲

Parts

• 稲 910 rice plant
  • ⽲ * wheat
    • ⼂ * drop (a drop of, drop of, eye-dropper)
    • 木 195 tree (wood, wooden pole, pole)
  • ⺤ * vulture
    • 爪 727 claw
    • ⊖ * something taken away
  • 旧 35 olden times
    • ⼁ * walking stick (cane)
    • 日 12 day (sun, tongue wagging in the mouth)

Japan doesn't have wheat, which is why they eat the seed of the rice plant. But they used to have it, in olden times, until a greedy flock of vultures came along and ate the entire crop, causing a change to the national staple food.

KANJIDIC Entry

• 稲 3070 U7a32 B115 G8 S14 XJ0634B F1038 N3294 V4158 H1219 DK824 L910 K966 O2125 DO1293 MN25187P MP8.0606 E1656 IN1220 DJ1233 DG1443 P1-5-9 I5d9.2 Q2296.3 Q2296.9 DR2278 Ydao4 Wdo トウ テ いね いな- T1 いの しね せ な {rice plant}

EDICT Entries

• 稲 [いね] / (n) rice-plant / (P) /
• 稲荷 [いなり] / (n) Inari (fox deity, originally of harvests) / flavoured boiled rice / flavored boiled rice / (P) /
• 稲刈り [いねかり] / (n) rice reaping / (P) /
• 稲妻 [いなずま] / (ik) (n) (flash of) lightning / (P) /
• 稲作 [いなさく] / (n) rice crop / (P) /
• 稲田 [いなだ] / (n) paddy field / rice field / (P) /
• 稲穂 [いなほ] / (n) ear (head) of rice / (P) /
• 水稲 [すいとう] / (n) wet-land rice / (P) /
• 早稲 [わせ] / (n) early ripening rice / (P) /