The Radical: 苗


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Meaning
seedling    苗

Explanation

Used in these Kanji:
JLPT 2Joyo 7
sweets, confectionary, fruit
KA
Top: plant , below: fruit/result (The 'fields' of the trees are their fruits.)
Vegetable (=vegetarian) fruits are used for sweets.

Vocabulary
JLPT 1Joyo 7
seedling, young plant, sapling
nae, nawa, BYŌ, MYŌ
Top: plant, grass , below: field
The plants (still as small as grass) on the field are seedlings.

Vocabulary
JLPT 1Joyo 7
depict, draw, sketch
egaku, BYŌ
Left: hand , right: seedling (= This plant [still as small] as grass on the field )
(A field with seedlings planted neatly in rows looks beautiful:) If the hand arranges the plants/seedling in the field (in such rows), it looks like being depicted.

Vocabulary
JLPT 2Joyo 7
cat
neko, BYŌ, MYŌ
Left: wild animal (dog on hind legs), right: seedling (= The plant [that is still as small] as grass on the field )
The animal in the seedlings is a cat.

Vocabulary

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