Kanji1 / 8
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
- —俳諧味haiku-like quality; clever feeling; witty flavor
- —豚味噌miso mixed with pork; pork miso
- —肉味噌meat miso; miso mixed with ground meat
- —酸味料acidulant; acidity regulator
- —こく味mouthfulness (of food and drink); body
- —吟味役auditor (Edo period); examiner; inquisitor; investigator; winner (of the most rounds, i.e. a full game)
- —新鮮味freshness; novelty
- —六味丸rokumi-gan (patent medicine)
- —味方機friendly plane
- —趣味本hobby book
- —趣味人hobbyist; person with many interests; dilettante
- —味噌粕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
- —味噌麹kōji used to make miso
- —五味子five flavor fruit (Schisandra chinensis); magnolia berry; schisandra fruit
- —意味的semantic
- —辛味餅karamimochi; mochi topped with grated daikon, soy sauce, etc.
- —味噌屋miso shop; miso maker
- —意味深長with profound (and often hidden) meaning; pregnant with significance; meaningful; suggestive; interesting
- —乾燥無味dryness; dullness
- —興味本位(just) out of curiosity; (just) in order to satisfy one's curiosity; aimed chiefly at amusing; sensational (e.g. magazine)