ジュース
ジュース
hepburn juusu
juice
Part of speech · noun
Pattern visualization
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Examples
- オレンジジュースをください。Orange juice, please.
- 冷たいジュースが飲みたいです。I want a cold juice.
Collocations
ジュース (juusu, juice — loanword)果汁 (kajuu, fruit juice — Sino-J formal)オレンジジュース (orenji juusu, orange juice)生ジュース (nama juusu, fresh-squeezed)炭酸ジュース (tansan juusu, carbonated drink — Japan-only sense)
Mnemonic
ジュース juusu — loaned from English "juice". Semantic stretch: English "juice" means fruit-squeezed drink only; Japanese ジュース covers any non-alcoholic beverage — soda, juice, soft drink all included. Vending machines list cola under "ジュース類". The formal Sino-Japanese 果汁 (kajuu) limits itself to actual fruit juice; food labels use "果汁100%". Foreign visitors protesting "コーラはジュースじゃない" find Japanese speakers happily lumping everything as ジュース. A textbook case of loanword semantic broadening by language.
Quick check
In a Japanese vending machine, what category includes cola?