グラム

• 読み: ぐらむ
• ローマ字: guramu
• 漢字の分解: 瓦 (ga/kawara) — roof tile; used as phonetic kanji for 'gram'
• 発音: /ɡɯ.ɾa.mɯ/

意味

Gram; gramme. The standard unit of mass in the metric system.

A loanword from French 'gramme' used for measuring weight. Commonly encountered when shopping for food, cooking, or discussing nutrition. Often combined with prefixes: キログラム (kilogram), ミリグラム (milligram). The kanji 瓦 may appear in official documents but katakana is the standard writing. Grocery stores typically label items in grams: 百グラム (100 grams).

例文

1. 肉を三百グラムください。
2. この荷物は五百グラムです。
3. バターを五十グラム入れてください。

使い方ガイド

場面: shopping, cooking, nutrition

トーン: neutral

起源と歴史

From French 'gramme,' derived from Late Latin 'gramma' meaning a small weight. The kanji 瓦 (originally meaning roof tile) was assigned as a phonetic abbreviation. Adopted with the metric system during the Meiji era.

文化的背景

時代: Meiji

世代: All ages

社会的背景: Universal