Keyword
Japanese plum
Info
FrequencyTop 1700-1800
Type
Kyōiku (4th grade) 
?
Shinjitai ?
KankenLevel 7
Heisig499
Old form
Readings
うめ
(43%)
むめ
(29%)
ばい
(18%)
(7%)
Composed of
tree
every
Used in vocabulary (126 in total)
Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)
rainy season (in Japan usu. from early June to mid-July); rain during the rainy season
umeboshi; pickled dried ume; pickled dried plum
Examples (20 in total)
This is a plum tree.
Look. There's a plum tree.
Plum blossoms come out in March.
It seems that the rainy season is over at last.
This year's rainy season is going to be a long one.
Do you think the rainy season will set in early this year?
In Japan, the rainy season usually begins in June.
The rainy season has set in.
When will the rainy season be over?
I wonder when the rainy season will end.
Rainy season begins in June.
The rainy season will be over in another two weeks or so.
This umeboshi tastes really salty.
Syphilis is an infection that can be transmitted through sexual intercourse.
The rainy season sets in about the end of June.
The rainy season set in early this year.
The rainy season began early this year.
Since it's not the rainy season, there's no need for an umbrella.
The end of the rainy season came late this year.
I wish the rainy season would end soon.