berries

HSK 10

Nature →Plants →Grasses

méi

バイ、マイ

いちご

매

Notes

Historical Evolution

Seal

Shuowen (~100 AD)

苺

Regular

Modern

Chinese

苺 [méi]

variant of 莓, berry; strawberry

Japanese

苺、莓 (old) いちご、イチゴ同音

noun

usually kana strawberry (esp. the garden strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa)
slang 15,000 yen (pun on 一五)

Example Sentences

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苺は今がシーズンだ。

Strawberries are in season now.

Japanese Names

苺いちご

Ichigo female given name

苺べりー

Berry female given name

苺まい

Mai female given name

苺めい

Mei female given name

JAPANESE WORDS (26)

⭐ 苺 [いちご] #22,530

strawberry (esp. the garden strawberry, Fragaria x ananassa)

木苺 [きいちご] #59,422

raspberry (any plant of genus Rubus, esp. Rubus palmatus var. coptophyllus)

野いちご [のいちご] #93,082

wild strawberry (Fragaria vesca)

蛇いちご [へびいちご] #160,159

false strawberry (Duchesnea chrysantha)

いちご飴 [いちごあめ] #192,669

candy-coated strawberry on a stick

いちご畑 [いちごばたけ] #217,143

strawberry field

黒苺 [くろいちご] #248,378

Rubus mesogaeus (species of blackberry)

冬苺 [ふゆいちご] #266,896

Rubus buergeri (species of raspberry)

毒苺 [どくいちご] #298,478

false strawberry (Duchesnea chrysantha)

いちご大福 [いちごだいふく]

strawberry mochi

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