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Kanji for Rice
The kanji for “rice” is 稲, read tou and written in 14 strokes. Here is what it means, how it is read, and the names it is used in.
rice
The rice plant, the heart of Japanese harvest festivals.
14 strokes On reading トウ、テ (tou, te) Kun reading いね、いな (ine, ina) JLPT N1
Dictionary meanings: rice plant
Readings used for names on Nazuke: ina, ine, tou
In Japan it appears in about 94 given names in the JMnedict name dictionary, mostly in girls’ names.
Names written with 稲: Gwyneth 久稲寿 · Josephina 恕世葉稲 · Antoinette 安音稲富
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