Keyword
rice plant
Info
FrequencyTop 1800-1900
Type
Jōyō 
?
Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel 4
Heisig976
Old form
Readings
いな
(75%)
いね
(18%)
(2%)
(1%)
Composed of
grain plant
claw (radical)
old times
Used in vocabulary (70 in total)
lightning; flash of lightning; lightning bolt
rice plant (Oryza sativa)
Inari (god of harvests, Uka-no-Mitama); Inari shrine; Fushimi Inari shrine (in Kyoto); fox (said to be messengers of Inari); fried tofu (said to be a favourite food of foxes); inarizushi
Examples (7 in total)
Lightning flashed in the sky.
He grows rice.
It's because light travels faster than sound that we see lightning before we hear thunder.