Meaning & readings
plains, field, rustic, civilian life
On’yomi ヤ、ショ
Kun’yomi の、の-
Nanori ずけ、つけ、ぬ
Origin
The left component 里 refers to land and villages, which makes sense for a character about fields and plains. The right component 予 is a sound hint that tells you roughly how to pronounce the character, not what it means. Together, 里 (land) combined with a sound marker 予 creates 野, a character for open land and fields — the kind of rustic, uncultivated plains you'd find outside settlements.
AI-generated (claude-haiku-4-5), not yet reviewed. Formation type (automated guess): Phono-semantic (meaning + sound hint).
Common words
Reference
- Strokes
- 11
- Kangxi radical
- 166
- Grade
- Grade 2 (Kyōiku)
- Frequency rank
- #120 (newspapers)
- Former JLPT
- level 3
- Unicode
- U+091CE