Illustration: At a community garden washing station, a gardener tips a harvest basket onto a low sorting table. Round potatoes with shallow eyes, long sweet potatoes, and small hairy taro corms tumble together, all still carrying clumps of soil.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

芋いも

imo

potato, yam, taro

The type of root vegetable depends on context. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 紫むらさき芋いもを食たべたいよ。

    I want to eat purple potatoes.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 煮崩にくずれしやすい芋いもと煮にえにくい棒鱈ぼうだらを普通ふつうは一緒いっしょに煮にない。

    The potato boils and softens easily, but the dried cod is not easily cooked through; so, usually they are not put together to boil.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 添加てんかする醸造じょうぞうアルコールは当初とうしょおもに芋いもから供給きょうきゅうされた。

    At first, the distilled alcohol which was added was mainly made from potato.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 芋

  • 芋taro; yamOnウKunいも

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