Kanji梅
Readingばい
Frequency19%
Used in (62 in total)
(East Asian) rainy season (in Japan, usu. from early June to mid-July); rain during the rainy season
white plum blossoms; white Japanese apricot; white-blossomed plum
seasoning; flavour; condition; state; (state of) health; physical condition
red-blossomed plum tree; red Japanese apricot
Japanese apricot orchard; plum orchard; plum garden; ume orchard
ume grove; plum grove
pine, bamboo and plum (an auspicious grouping); high, middle and low (ranking); top, middle and bottom; upper, medium, lower
plum blossoms; ume blossom
shredded dried plum; plum pulp
fortunately; luckily
entering the rainy season; beginning of the rainy season
old plum tree
early-blooming plum
plum tree which blossoms in winter; early-flowering plum tree; early plum blossoms
wild Japanese apricot
fifth lunar month; fourth lunar month
wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox); Japanese allspice
fallen ume blossoms; fallen ume fruit
winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum)
plum-blossom viewing
cerebral syphilis
goldencup St. John's wort (Hypericum patulum)
kōbaiyaki (senbei punched into shapes, e.g. plum)
wintersweet (Chimonanthus praecox); Japanese allspice
dried and smoked plum (used in Chinese medicine and for dyeing)
winter plum tree with reddish blossoms
going out in search of plum blossoms; plum-blossom viewing
plum bonsai
end of the rainy season
Satsuma mock orange; Philadelphus satsumi
The Plum in the Golden Vase (classic of Chinese literature); The Golden Lotus; Chin P'ing Mei; Jin Ping Mei
plum blossom festival (held at Kitano Shrine on February 25)
flour made from cooked glutinous rice
Chinese bushberry; bush cherry; Prunus japonica
well-balanced vinegar
Hibai Japanese apricot
rainy season
yeddo hawthorn (Rhaphiolepis indica var. umbellata)
winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum); Trollius hondoensis (species of globeflower)
white false hellebore (Veratrum oxysepalum)
Trollius riederianus var. japonicus (Japanese variety of the Kamchatka globeflower, Trollius riederianus)
Ludwigia stipulacea (species of primrose-willow)
cinquefoil (Potentilla matsumurae); potentilla; Japanese alpine perennial of the rose family
white hellebore (Veratrum stamineum); false hellebore
Trollius hondoensis (species of globeflower)
shrubby cinquefoil (Dasiphora fruticosa); golden hardhack
Potentilla yokusaiana (species of cinquefoil)
Pacific silverweed (Potentilla egedii var. grandis); Eged's silverweed
manuka (Leptospermum scoparium); New Zealand tea tree
blunt-lobed spice bush (Lindera obtusiloba)
seasoning; flavour; flavor; serving one's lord well (of a retainer)