Illustration: In a Japanese home kitchen, a cook lifts a slippery cluster of rehydrated wakame from a bowl of water with chopsticks. Its thin, broad, irregularly lobed fronds unfold and droop back toward the bowl.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

わかめ

wakame

wakame seaweed

Example sentences

  1. 「わかめ」と「昆布こんぶ」って、違ちがうの？

    Are wakame and kombu different?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. ワカメは味噌汁みそしるなどの汁物しるものの具ぐとしてよく使つかわれる。

    It is often used as an ingredient in soup dishes, such as miso soup.

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

  3. また、韓国かんこくでは誕生日たんじょうびにワカメのスープを飲のむ習慣しゅうかんがある。

    Additionally, in Korea there is a custom of having seaweed soup on one’s birthday.

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

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