Kanji
N1 8 strokes Grade 8 freq #1713

seedling, sapling, shoot

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

grass kusa

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

seeds and seedlings
raising seedlings
surname; family name
shoot
deflection (gunnery)
pea sprouts
Plant Variety Protection and Seed Act
celebration for the end of rice planting; festival held when all rice has been planted
Pacific island flatsedge (Cyperus cyperoides)
Miao (people); Hmong

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

seedling; young plant
seedling; sapling
rice seedling
seedbed; nursery
field of seedlings (rice, trees, etc.)
native raspberry (Rubus parvifolius)
time to prepare a rice nursery
fifth lunar month
rice seedling
lesser cuckoo (Cuculus poliocephalus)

Example sentences

The young plants are potted during the winter.

Tom asked Mary what her last name was.

Tom didn't know what Mary's last name was.