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Taste Meaning Flavor Mouth Significance Flavour Plain Taking

Kanji
Onyomi
Kunyomi あじ、あじ.わう
English flavor, taste
Examples 意味(いみ): meaning; significance
味(あじ): (1) flavor; flavour; taste (2) charm; style (3) experience (4) smart; clever; witty; strange
興味(きょうみ): interest (in something)
趣味(しゅみ): (1) hobby; pastime (2) tastes; preference; liking
気味(きみ): (1) sensation; feeling (2) tendency; propensity
地味(じみ): plain; simple; subdued; sober
味方(みかた): friend; ally; supporter
味覚(みかく): taste; palate; sense of taste
調味料(ちょうみりょう): flavoring (e.g. salt, sugar, soy sauce, vinegar, etc.); seasoning
味わい(あじわい): (1) flavour; flavor (2) meaning; significance
三味線(しゃみせん): three-stringed Japanese guitar; shamisen
加味(かみ): (1) seasoning; flavoring; flavouring (2) taking (something) into consideration; taking into account
味わう(あじわう): to taste; to savor; to relish
味噌(みそ): (1) miso; bean paste (2) key (main) point; good part (of something) (3) weak person
無意味(むいみ): nonsense; no meaning; meaningless
吟味(ぎんみ): testing; scrutiny; careful investigation
美味しい(おいしい): delicious; tasty; sweet
不味い(まずい): (1) unappetising; unappetizing; unpleasant (taste, appearance, situation) (2) unskillful; unskilful; bungling; clumsy (3) ugly; homely; plain; unattractive (4) awkward; untimely; inopportune; unfavorable; unwise
正味(しょうみ): net (weight)
気味(ぎみ): -like; -looking; -looked; tending to ...
味(み): (1) (sense of) taste (2) counter for food, drink, medicine, etc.
五味(ごみ): (1) five flavors (sweet, salty, spicy, sour, bitter); five palates; five tastes (2) five flavors (milk at various stages of making ghee: fresh milk, cream, curdled milk, butter, and ghee); the five periods of the Buddha's teachings
JLPT Level 4
Jouyou Grade 3
Frequency 442
Components 口: mouth
未: un-; not yet; hitherto; still; even now; sign of the ram; 1-3PM; eighth sign of Chinese zodiac
Number of Strokes 8
Kanji Radical
Radical Number 30
Radical Strokes 3
Radical Reading くち・くちへん
Traditional Form (none)
Classification 形声 Phonetic
Keyword flavor
Koohii Story 1 My mouth has not yet swallowed the food because the flavor is so delicious that I keep chewing it.
Koohii Story 2 To enjoy a food´s FLAVOR, it must be in one´s MOUTH but NOT YET swallowed.

Tags: jlpt.n4, grade3, kanjifreq251-500, kanji_emotion.sense_sense

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