うめ
Meanings
Noun
1. Japanese apricot (Prunus mume); Japanese plum; ume; Chinese plum
2. lowest (of a three-tier ranking system)
Kanji used
Japanese plum
Pitch accent
Top 9200
Used in vocabulary (30 in total)
white plum blossoms; white Japanese apricot; white-blossomed plum
ume liqueur; Japanese plum brandy; unripe ume infused in liquor (esp. shōchū) with added sugar
red-blossomed plum tree; red Japanese apricot
unripe plum
Japanese apricot; ume
crunchy pickled plum
plum-blossom viewing
Bungo Japanese apricot; Prunus mume var. bungo
match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; (lit.) bush warbler in a plum tree (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting)
umezuke; pickled fresh ume
match made in heaven; perfect match; great coupling; (lit.) bush warbler in a plum tree (a common motif in poetry and classical Japanese painting)
strips of shark cartilage served with dried plum
deep brown color
grayish pink; rose grey
Japanese apricot; ume
crunchy pickled plum
pincushion plant (Diapensia lapponica)
low class prostitute in Yoshiwara (Edo period)
don't eat plum pits (because they are poisonous); (lit.) if you eat a plum, don't eat the kernel; inside it heavenly gods sleep
clothes worn between winter and spring
era during early 1900s dominated by the grand champions Hitachiyama and Umegatani II
weeping plum (Prunus mume f. pendula); weeping Japanese apricot
weeping plum (Prunus mume f. pendula); weeping Japanese apricot
weeping plum (Prunus mume f. pendula); weeping Japanese apricot
crushed umeboshi; crushed pickled plum
Japanese winterberry; Ilex serrata
yellowtail blue snapper (Paracaesio xanthura); yellowback fusilier
Japanese winterberry; Ilex serrata
Chinese bushberry (Prunus japonica); bush cherry
Umeyashiki Station (Tokyo)
Examples (2 in total)
This is a plum tree.
Plum blossoms come out in March.