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苗

JLPT N1 8 strokes Frequency: #1713

Meanings

Seedling, Sapling, Shoot

Radicals

艹

Decomposition

⿱艹田

Etymology

Ideographic: Grass 艹 growing in a field 田

Writing Practice

Stroke 0 / 8

Stroke Order

1 horizontal bottom-to-top

2 vertical right-to-left

3 vertical right-to-left

4 vertical bottom-to-top

5 corner bottom-to-top

6 vertical right-to-left

7 horizontal bottom-to-top

8 horizontal bottom-to-top

On'yomi (Chinese reading)

ミョウ myou

ビョウ byou

Kun'yomi (Japanese reading)

なえ nae

Words Using This Kanji

23 words total

Other (20 words)

mulberry seedling

seeds and seedlings

vaccine

rice nursery

seedling

seedbed

seedling

surname

seedling peddler

rice seedling

water for a rice nursery

苗字帯刀みょうじたいとう

right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period)

早苗鳥さなえどり

lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

苗族ミャオぞく

Miao (people)

苗代時なわしろどき

time to prepare a rice nursery

fifth lunar month

deflection (gunnery)

pea sprouts

rice seedling

shoot

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