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The kanji 苗: meaning, readings and stroke order
苗
- Meaning
- seedling
- On reading
- ビョウ byou
- Kun reading
- なえ nae、なわ* nawa
- Strokes
- 8
- Radical
- 艸 grass
- Level
- Level 8 · the last years of junior high
Stroke order
Meaning in other languages
- Vietnamese
- cây giống, mạ (miêu)
- Japanese
- なえ。うえかえる ちいさな くさき。
- Korean
- 모, 모종 (묘)
- Chinese
- 幼苗、秧苗
Readings, words and example sentences
ビョウ byou · on reading · less common
種苗
seeds and young plants
種苗を 売る 店です。
This is a shop that sells seeds and young plants.
なえ nae · kun reading
苗
young plant, seedling
田に いねの 苗を 植えます。
People plant rice seedlings in the paddy.
* marks a less common reading, usually learnt from junior high on.
Practise writing 苗 in the app
In Dino Kids your child writes 苗 with a finger and every stroke is checked, then takes the Level 8 practice test. Free, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.