Illustration: On the balcony of a Japanese apartment, a child crouches with their face level with a small flowerpot. A fresh shoot has pushed through a crack in the soil, lifting two tiny folded leaves; part of its split seed coat still clings near the stem.

芽め

sprout, bud

Example sentences

木々きぎは芽めを出だし始はじめた。
The trees are beginning to bud.
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芽めがでてきた。
The buds are just showing.
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木々きぎに芽めが出でている。
The trees are in bud.
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Kanji in 芽

芽bud; sproutOnガKunめ

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