野菜
やさい
hepburn yasai
vegetable
Part of speech · noun
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野plains
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菜vegetable
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Examples
- 野菜をたくさん食べましょう。Let's eat lots of vegetables.
- スーパーで野菜を買いました。I bought vegetables at the supermarket.
Collocations
野菜 (yasai, vegetables)野菜炒め (yasai itame, stir-fried veg)生野菜 (nama yasai, raw veg)野菜ジュース (yasai juusu, vegetable juice)根菜 (konsai, root vegetables)
Mnemonic
野菜 yasai — kanji "field (野) + greens (菜)" = field-grown plants = vegetables. The same kanji writes Korean "yachae" and Chinese yěcài, but Chinese 野菜 narrowly means "wild edible plants", while Japanese and Korean expanded the term to cover all cultivated vegetables. A cross-CJK trap: identical kanji, divergent semantic scopes. In Japan, 健康 (health) discourse pushes "350 g/day vegetables" as a public-health slogan.
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Semantic difference of 野菜 across CJK?