苗

seedling, sapling, shoot

Readings

On'yomi (音読み)

ビョウミョウ

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

なえなわ-

Nanori (名乗り)

ねいのらみうみつ

Stroke Order

8 / 8

Information

Grade:8

Strokes:8

JLPT:N1

Frequency:1713

Vocabulary

ビョウ

Word	Reading	Meaning
育苗	イクビョウ	raising seedlings
種苗	シュビョウ	seeds and seedlings; eggs and hatchlings; (fish) eggs and fry
桑苗	ソウビョウ	mulberry seedling
痘苗	トウビョウ	vaccine
苗圃	ビョウホ	seedbed; nursery

ミョウ

Word	Reading	Meaning
苗字	ミョウジ	surname; family name; last name
苗字帯刀	ミョウジタイトウ	right to bear a surname and to wear a sword (during the Edo period)
豆苗	トウミョウ	pea sprouts
豆苗	トウミョウ	pea sprouts

Other

Word	Reading	Meaning
苗	なえ	seedling; young plant; rice seedling
苗木	なえぎ	seedling; sapling; young tree
苗床	なえどこ	seedbed; nursery; seed-plot
早苗	さなえ	rice seedling
芋苗	ずいき	taro stem

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