Japanese word
土産
みやげ
In your course · Chapter 21
- Part of speech
- noun
- Level
- A2
- Frequency
- No. 1,004 in the course corpus
Meanings
- souvenir
- local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while travelling
- present brought by a visitor
- something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation)
- unwelcome gift
- disservice
Source: Tonada course · JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))
Kanji
- 土
- On reading:
- ト、ド
- Kun reading:
- つち
- Meanings:
- soil, earth, ground, Turkey
- 産
- On reading:
- サン
- Kun reading:
- う.まれる、う.む、うぶ-、む.す
- Meanings:
- products, bear, give birth, yield, childbirth, native, property
Source: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0 (EDRDG Licence))