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芋

芋 (potato)

  • JLPT N1
  • 6 strokes
  • Secondary (Jōyō)
  • Radical 艸
  • #2418 most frequent

Food Drink

Readings

On'yomi 音読み
ウ
Kun'yomi 訓読み
いも

Example words & Vocabulary

Example sentences 3

最近では家庭用の「石焼き芋器」も市販されており、家庭でも手軽に石焼き芋が楽しめるようになってきている。

Recently, 'ishiyaki imo equipment' for household use is on the market, so everyone can easily enjoy ishiyaki imo at home.

--「やきいもーやきいもー栗よりうまい十三里ー」栗より美味い十三里と言う文言は「栗」を九里と「より」を四里とを足して焼き芋のことを十三里というなぞかけ言葉である。

The vendors sold baked sweet potatoes by shouting 'Sweet Potatoes! Sweet Potatoes! It's 13 ri (old Japanese unit of distance), 4 ri more delicious than 9 ri!,' which is a wordplay meaning that sweet potatoes are more delicious ('more' is synonym of '4 ri') than chestnuts (synonym of '9 ri'.)

石焼き釜を使わず焼いたものは、単に焼き芋と呼ばれる。

Cooking sweet potato without an ishiyaki kettle is simply called yaki imo (baked sweet potato).

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