苗 — seedling, sapling, shoot

なえ苗 seedling

Grade S Japanese school grade level in which this kanji is taught. Grade 1 is first year of elementary school. 8 strokes

U+82D7 Unicode hex codepoint — a unique identifier for this character in the Unicode standard. Freq #1713 Frequency rank among the ~2,500 most common kanji in Japanese newspapers. Lower number = more common. Heisig #249 Index in James Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" — a popular textbook that teaches kanji through mnemonics and stories.

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Meanings

seedling
sapling
shoot

Readings

On'yomi: びょう byou みょう myou
Kun'yomi: なえ nae なわ nawa

word

なえ nae Kun'yomi Kun'yomi (訓読み) — the native Japanese reading of this kanji. Used when the kanji appears alone or with okurigana (trailing hiragana).

苗(なえ) nae seedling

Stroke order

Stroke data from KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Components

Composed of

艹 grass

た田 rice field #102

Used as component in (2)

えがく描 sketch ねこ猫 cat

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Kangxi Radical The Kangxi radicals are a set of 214 character components standardized in the 1716 Kangxi Dictionary. Every kanji is classified under one radical, used for dictionary lookup and character organization.

#140 艸 grass