滋
nourishing, nutritious; delicious
Kanji 1327
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Revision history:
Nov. 9, 2023: p. 4: Added a lot more information about 土瓶蒸し.
Oct. 31, 2023: p. 4: Made small changes to the definition of the mushroom dish and the sample sentence. Also fixed a broken link to images of that dish.
June 4, 2021:
- p. 2: Updated the Henshall etymology.
- p. 3: Added a small amount of information about the book author.
- p. 12: Added a sentence to the first paragraph.
- p. 12: Added a link to the Kanshudo games.
Dec. 5, 2014:
- p. 3: The first sample sentence should have featured 滋味に富む, not 滋養に富む, and now does.
- p. 4: Fixed a typo.
Aug. 22, 2014: Originally published.
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