Chinese

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mountain; hill Colocasia antiquorum
trad. (山芋)
simp. #(山芋)

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山芋

  1. (dialectal Mandarin, dialectal Gan, Huizhou, dialectal Jin, Wu) sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
  2. (Yinchuan Mandarin) potato
  3. (literary or Wenzhounese) taro
  4. (Sichuanese) taro grown on dry land
  5. (Taiwanese Hokkien) Alocasia odora (elephant ear)
  6. Alternative name for 薯蕷薯蓣 (shǔyù, “Chinese yam; Dioscorea polystachya”).

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Japanese

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Kanji in this term
やま
Grade: 1
いも
Grade: S
kun'yomi
 山芋 on Japanese Wikipedia
 
山芋 (yamaimo): a variety of yamaimo for sale in a grocery.

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Etymology

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Compound of (やま) (yama, mountain) + (いも) (imo, tuber, potato).[1][2]

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Noun

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(やま)(いも) (yamaimo

  1. Dioscorea japonica, a type of yam

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References

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  1. ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典(新装版) [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 2.0 2.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN