Illustration: On a Japanese apartment balcony, a gardener measures a small spoonful of fertilizer granules from an open plain tub and adds them to the water reservoir of a hydroponic tomato plant. Its pale roots are visible inside the clear-sided reservoir.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

養よう分ぶん

youbun

nutrient, nourishment

Example sentences

  1. しかし、ウナギの旬しゅんは冬眠とうみんに備そなえて身みに養分ようぶんを貯たくわえる晩秋ばんしゅうから初冬しょとうにかけての時期じきである。

    However, eels are in season from late fall to early winter because they accumulate nutrients in their bodies in order to prepare themselves for hibernation.

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

  2. 無理むりに収量しゅうりょうを増ふやそうとすると、1反たんあたりの土壌どじょうの養分ようぶんの量りょうは決きまっているので、獲とれる米こめの質しつが落おちる。

    If you try to increase yields too much, the nutrients available in each plot of land are limited, so the quality of the rice you harvest declines.

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

  3. この肥料ひりょうには花はなに必要ひつような養分ようぶんが入はいっている。

    This fertilizer contains nutrients that flowers need.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 養分

  • 養foster; bring upOnヨウ・リョウKunやしなう
  • 分part; minute of timeOnブン・フン・ブKunわける・わけ・わかれる

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