苗
なえ · nae · JLPT N1 · noun
seedling
🌱 苗 = 艹 grass + 田 field: the young green shoot growing in a rice paddy
The top part 艹 is the grass radical and the bottom part 田 is a rice field, so 苗 is a young plant sprouting in the paddy. Transplanted rice seedlings are called 苗 until they are set in the field.
苗 — grass radical 艹 + field 田
A pictographic-semantic compound showing young plants (艹) growing in a field (田), originally meaning 'seedling' or 'young sprout.' The meaning later extended to 'descendants' and became a surname, as well as the name for the Miao ethnic group.