Plants & farming
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On'yomi & Kun'yomi
On'yomi (音読み) is the reading borrowed from Chinese, usually used in compound words, e.g. 三月 (さんがつ, March).
Kun'yomi (訓読み) is the native Japanese reading, used when the kanji stands alone or takes kana endings, e.g. 三つ (みっつ, three items).
By convention the readings list writes on'yomi in katakana (シュ) and kun'yomi in hiragana (さけ). Example words show furigana in hiragana, so the same on'yomi can look like シュ in the list but しゅ in a word.
What the component colors mean
Blue - the main radical the kanji is filed under in dictionaries.
Green - a component that hints at the meaning.
Orange - a component that hints at the reading (sound).
Grey - another building block, with no clear meaning or sound role.
to raise, to bring up
education
physical education
to plant
plant, vegetation
rice planting
daikon radish
roof
leaf (casual)
fallen leaves
word, language
harvest, fruition
real ability
fact
to fall, to drop
to drop, to let fall
fallen leaves
green (color)
fresh spring greenery
A kokuji (kanji made in Japan), so it has no on'yomi.
farm work
fields (paddies and dry fields)
flower field
agriculture
farmer, farmhouse
farmer, peasant
bitter (taste)
painful, hard to bear
hardship, toil
Practice
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