甘い

• 読み: あまい
• ローマ字: amai
• 漢字の分解: 甘 (ama/kan) — sweet, indulgent
• 発音: /a.ma.i/

意味

Sweet-tasting; sugary. Describes the flavor of sweets, fruit, and desserts.

An i-adjective primarily describing sweet flavors. Beyond taste, 甘い has important figurative meanings: 甘い考え means a naive or optimistic idea, and 甘やかす means to spoil someone. In food culture, it pairs naturally with Japanese sweets (和菓子). Conjugates regularly: 甘くない, 甘かった.

例文

1. このケーキはとても甘いです。
2. 日本のいちごは甘くておいしい。
3. 甘いものが好きですか。

使い方ガイド

場面: food, taste, cooking

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

The kanji 甘 depicts something sweet in the mouth. It has been used since ancient Japanese to describe sweet flavors and metaphorically for indulgence or leniency.

文化的背景

時代: Ancient

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal