Illustration: At a small kitchen table, a woman has just split a roasted sweet potato, exposing its soft, steaming interior and a little sticky syrup along the skin. She tastes a small piece with a fork; her eyes close and her shoulders relax into unmistakable pleasure.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

甘あまみ

amami

sweetness

Example sentences

リンゴは冷ひやすと甘あまみが増まします。
Apples are sweeter when cold.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
味あじは塩分えんぶんが強つよく、少すこし甘あまみを含ふくむ。
It tastes very salty and slightly sweet.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
原料げんりょうから想像そうぞうされるほどに甘味あまみは強つよくない。
It doesn’t taste very sweet as would be imagined from the ingredients.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 甘

甘sweet; coaxOnカンKunあまい・あまえる・あまやかす

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