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梅干

うめぼし

umeboshi; salted and dried Japanese plum (pickled ume)

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Examples

  1. 梅干はとても酸っぱい。

    うめぼしはとてもすっぱい。

    Umeboshi are extremely sour.

  2. おにぎりの具は梅干がいい。

    おにぎりのぐはうめぼしがいい。

    For a rice ball filling I'd like umeboshi.

  3. 祖母は毎年自分で梅干を漬けている。

    そぼはまいとしじぶんでうめぼしをつけている。

    My grandmother pickles her own umeboshi every year.

Common patterns

梅干を漬ける
to pickle umeboshi
梅干おにぎり
umeboshi rice ball
梅干のような顔
a face wrinkled like an umeboshi

Memory tip

Not a prune — it is salt-pickled and shiso-dyed, ferociously sour rather than sweet. Usually written 梅干し with the okurigana; the sun-dried 干 is the 'dried' step in the process.

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