Illustration: At a Japanese home’s dinner table, an adult has just taken a bite of a plainly cooked bitter melon slice. The distinctive bumpy green half-moons remain on a small plate, and a cut section of the whole vegetable rests on the nearby kitchen counter.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

苦にが味み

nigami

bitterness, bitter taste

Example sentences

  1. この咳止せきどめ用ようトローチは苦味にがみがあるがよくきく。

    These cough lozenges taste bitter but they will do you much good.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 甘あまみと苦にがみ・渋しぶみの調和ちょうわがとれるのが良よいとされる。

    The tea with well-balanced sweetness and bitterness or astringency is considered good.

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

  3. 甘あまみがより強つよく、渋しぶみ・苦味にがみのより少すくないものが良よしとされ、高価こうかである。

    Powdered green tea with a sweeter taste and less astringency and bitterness is regarded as the better quality and is accordingly expensive.

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

Kanji in 苦味

  • 苦suffering; trialOnクKunくるしい・くるしむ・にがい
  • 味flavor; tasteOnミKunあじ・あじわう

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