ぶどう

• 読み: ぶどう
• ローマ字: budou
• 漢字の分解: 葡 (bu) — grape; 萄 (dou) — grape
• 発音: /bɯ.doː/

意味

Grapes. A popular fruit eaten fresh, dried as raisins, or used to make wine and juice.

Can be written in kanji as 葡萄 but is almost always written in hiragana. Japan is famous for its premium grape varieties, especially 巨峰 (kyohou) and シャインマスカット (Shine Muscat), which can be quite expensive. ぶどう酒 is an older word for wine, though ワイン is more common today.

例文

1. 秋になるとぶどうがおいしくなります。
2. スーパーでぶどうを一房買いました。
3. 山梨県はぶどうの産地で有名です。

使い方ガイド

場面: food, fruit, shopping

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

From Chinese 葡萄 (pútáo), which itself was borrowed from an ancient Central Asian language. Grapes were introduced to Japan via China along the Silk Road.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal