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芋 means 'potato'

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Strokes : 6    Frequency: 1646   JLPT: N1    Usefulness: 5    Study set: 5-27    Grade: 8   Intermediate lesson: -    Beginner lesson: -   Begins 25 words   Used in 69 words   Used in 111 names   Not used as a component
Jōyō (常用)
Common readings
Kun
   いも potato
Additional readings
On    ウ
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A Joy o' Kanji essay is available for 芋 - click the badge to download
From Hokkaido to Okinawa, the Japanese grow many types of white potatoes and sweet potatoes and have scads of ways of eating them. Find out when 芋 represents which of its many definitions, why a "new potato" label is crucial, what "sweet potato color" means, and what a potato stamp is. Also see why sweet potatoes prompt passion, nostalgia, embarrassed laughter, and excuses.
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Favorite Foods
芋 寿 麺 拉
Sushi comes in infinite varieties (as the 寿 essay shows). Noodles can take many forms and be made from a multitude of flours (as the 麺 and 拉 essays demonstrate). Sweet potatoes differ by region (as the 芋 essay makes clear). In Japan these favorite foods inspire not only cravings but also deep passion, nostalgia, arguments over origin stories, and hairsplitting about the preparation methods particular to certain locales. People also have strong beliefs about these dishes, eating certain noodles for longevity, treating sweet potatoes as guilty pleasures, and regarding uncut sushi as lucky.
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Most useful words by reading
In the most useful 10,000 words in Japanese, 芋 is used 2 times, read 1 way.
Across all words in Japanese, 芋 is used 59 times, read 2 ways.
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noun
calla (Zantedcschia aethiopica)  (see also: カラー; often written with kana only)
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いも : 57 words FIND ALL
い も 2
Most common form: いも
noun
1. tuber; taro; potato
2. yokel; bumpkin  (derogatory)
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An additional 10 less common words include 芋 but the reading has not yet been categorized.
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芋
いも potato   
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于
ウ    from   
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二
ニ   ふたつ    ふた two   
亅
hook
艹
grass   
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