Meaning

Primary

Rice Field

Alternatives

Rice Paddy, Paddy Field

Word Type

noun

Explanation

A rice plant rice paddy is a rice field or rice paddy.

Reading

いなだ
  • Kyoko
    (Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi
    (Tokyo accent, male)

Explanation

This word uses kun'yomi readings for (いな) and with rendaku (). You may not be familiar with the いな reading yet, but it appears in a lot of compounds that use , so it's good to know. Here's a mnemonic to help:

There's a popular road trip game in Japan where every time you pass a rice field, you have to eat nachos (いな). See a rice field? Eat nachos. And if you've ever driven through rural Japan, you know how many rice fields (and eaten nachos) that adds up to. I once gained five pounds in two hours on a drive through Niigata… It wasn't pretty. But the rice fields were.

Context

Context Sentences

友達はもっと大きい稲田をもっていますよ。

My friend has much bigger rice fields.

Kanji Composition