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蕪: turnip

turnip
15 strokesNames & literary · Name kanji (準1級 range)in 2 words here

Readings

On
ブ・ム
Kun
かぶ・かぶら・あれる

The vegetable is 蕪 (かぶ); the on-reading ぶ shows up in literary words such as 荒蕪地 and 蕪雑.

Key words

蕪かぶturnip
赤蕪あかかぶred turnip
荒蕪地こうぶちwasteland
蕪雑ぶざつrough; disordered

Example sentences

In winter I look forward to eating sweetly simmered turnip, blowing on it to cool it.

In Takayama I bought pickled red turnips as a souvenir.

The field, unused for a long time, had turned into wasteland.

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