搗布

Japanese

Japanese Wikipedia has an article on:

カジメ

Etymology

Possibly from 搗(か)ち (kachi, 連(れん)用(よう)形(けい) (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of the verb 搗(か)つ (katsu, “to pound”)) + 海布(め) (me, “seaweed”), likely due to its culinary use.

Kanji in this term
搗	布
かじめ
Hyōgai	Grade: 5
jukujikun

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) かじめ [kàjíꜜmè] (Nakadaka – [2])^[1]
IPA^(key): [ka̠ʑime̞]

Noun

搗布(かじめ) or 搗布(カジメ) • (kajime)

paddle weed (Ecklonia cava)

Usage notes

As with many terms that name organisms, this term is often spelled in katakana, especially in biological contexts (where katakana is customary), as カジメ.

References

^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

[NHK-1] NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN

[1]