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梅 kanji
plum
- JLPT level
- N1 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 10
- School grade
- Grade 4 (elementary school)
On readings
バイ
Kun readings
うめ
Variant forms
楳槑梅Words with 梅
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —早梅early-blooming plum
- —探梅going out in search of plum blossoms; plum-blossom viewing
- —烏梅dried and smoked plum (used in Chinese medicine and for dyeing)
- —松竹梅pine, bamboo and plum (an auspicious grouping); high, middle and low (ranking); top, middle and bottom; upper, medium, lower; first, second and third (class)
- —梅雨期rainy season
- —脳梅毒cerebral syphilis
- —寒紅梅winter plum tree with reddish blossoms
- —金糸梅goldencup St. John's wort (Hypericum patulum)
- —林鐘梅Chinese bushberry; bush cherry; Prunus japonica
- —珍至梅sorbaria
- —紅梅焼kōbaiyaki (senbei punched into shapes, e.g. plum)
- —金梅草Trollius hondoensis (species of globeflower)
- —楊梅瘡syphilis
- —梅花祭plum blossom festival (held at Kitano Shrine on February 25)
- —水金梅Ludwigia stipulacea (species of primrose-willow)
- —蔓金梅Potentilla yokusaiana (species of cinquefoil)
- —寒梅粉flour made from cooked glutinous rice
- —車輪梅yeddo hawthorn (Rhaphiolepis indica var. umbellata)
- —梅毒腫syphiloma
- —梅毒疹syphilid