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味 kanji
flavor, taste
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N5 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
ミ
Kun readings
あじあじわう
Words with 味
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —かん味saltiness; salty taste
- —いや味disagreeableness; unpleasantness; nastiness; offensiveness; tastelessness; cutting remark; disagreeable remark; snide comment; sarcastic comment
- —面白味interest; appeal; attraction; fun
- —あま味sweetness; sugary taste; sweets; dessert; cake
- —青味泥spirogyra; algae forming pond scum
- —有難味value; worth; virtue; blessing
- —えぐ味harshness; acridity; astringent taste; bitter taste
- —蟹味噌brown meat (crab); miso-like paste found inside a crab's (and arthropods in general) intestinal area; miso mixed with crab innards or scraps
- —甘味所cafe featuring Japanese-style sweets
- —焼味噌grilled miso
- —鬼味噌grilled miso mixed with chili peppers; person who acts tough but is actually timid
- —鰹味噌bonito miso; miso mixed with bonito
- —練味噌miso mixed with sugar and sake, thickened by stirring over low heat
- —本味醂(true) mirin; mirin containing alcohol
- —柚味噌miso with sugar, sake, yuzu juice and skin; hollowed out yuzu stuffed with miso and yuzu juice then baked
- —外連味pretense; affectation; showiness
- —味噌滓miso lees; miso strainings; miso dregs; worthless thing; good-for-nothing; child who is left out of games; child who is made light of; child treated unequally by peers
- —中味汁pork offal soup (specialty of Okinawa Prefecture)
- —意味あいimplication; nuance; shade of meaning; connotation
- —意味慎重with profound (and often hidden) meaning; pregnant with significance; meaningful; suggestive; interesting