Keyword
moss
Info
FrequencyTop 2400-2500
Type
Jinmeiyō 
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KankenLevel Pre-1
Heisig2443
Readings
こけ
(64%)
(32%)
たい
(1%)
ごけ
(1%)
Composed of
blades of grass
pedestal
Used in vocabulary (71 in total)
moss; short plants resembling moss (incl. other bryophytes, lichens, very small spermatophytes, etc.)
nori; laver; edible seaweed, usu. Porphyra yezoensis or P. tenera, usu. dried and pressed into sheets
to become covered in moss; to become mossy; to grow over with moss; to become aged; to grow old
to become covered in moss; to become mossy; to grow over with moss; to become aged; to grow old
vinegared rice rolled in nori (laver)
green laver (Enteromorpha); green dried seaweed; nori
baked seaweed; toasted seaweed
seasoned nori (laver)
vinegared rice rolled in nori (laver)
lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea); cowberry
sphagnum; peat moss; bog moss
moss; bryophyte
bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, incl. mosses, hornworts and liverworts)
Pyropia tenera (species of edible seaweed); dried nori; dried laver
kokedama; moss ball; plant grown in a ball of soil covered in moss, held together with string
moss animal (any animal of phylum Bryozoa)
baked seaweed; toasted seaweed
wild harvested nori; jelly lichen (Collema sp.)
small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos)
fur (on one's tongue)
seasoned nori (laver)
funori; glue plant; marine alga of the genus Gloiopeltis; funori; glue used as sizing for textiles
dried edible seaweed
seasoned nori (laver)
crumbled grilled nori
moss garden
a rolling stone gathers no moss
round-leaved sundew (Drosera rotundifolia); common sundew
gim; kim; Korean nori
crumbled grilled nori
a rolling stone gathers no moss
reindeer moss
Pyropia tenera (species of edible seaweed)
Meristotheca papulosa (species of edible red alga)
Miquel's mazus (species of small flowering plant, Mazus miquelii)
Campylaephora hypnaeoides (species of red algae); egonori
Petalonia binghamiae (edible species of brown algae)
a rolling stone gathers no moss
Miquel's mazus (species of small flowering plant, Mazus miquelii)
bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, incl. mosses, hornworts and liverworts)
bryophyte (any of three groups of non-vascular land plants, incl. mosses, hornworts and liverworts)
hornworts (non-vascular plants of order Anthocerotopsida)
liverworts; hepatics (non-vascular plants of order Marchantiophyta)
Iceland moss (Cetraria islandica); Iceland lichen
Iceland moss (Cetraria islandica); Iceland lichen
first dried nori after the winter
visit to a family grave (esp. during the Bon festival); removal of moss from a tombstone
Iceland moss (Cetraria islandica); Iceland lichen
Thorea okadae (species of red alga)
Thorea okadae (species of red alga)
bryozoans (animals of phylum Bryozoa)
Porphyra yezoensis (species of edible purple laver)
Grateloupia filicina (species of red alga)
Grateloupia elliptica (species of red alga)
whiteworm lichen (Thamnolia vermicularis)
tiny bristle fern (Crepidomanes minutum)
gutweed (Ulva intestinalis); grass kelp
Pyropia kurogii (species of red algae)
Examples (2 in total)
"A rolling stone gathers no moss" is a proverb.
Have you ever eaten seaweed?