Word Meaning 山椒

さんしょ sansho

山椒 is read as さんしょ (sansho) and means Japanese pepper (species of Sichuan pepper, Zanthoxylum piperitum).

Meaning

English

Japanese pepper (species of Sichuan pepper, Zanthoxylum piperitum)
Japanese prickly ash

Reading

Kana

さんしょ

Romaji

sansho

Writing Variants

山椒さんしょう sanshou

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 15 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

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Related Vocabulary

Max. 12

山椒喰

さんしょうくい

ashy minivet (species of passerine bird, Pericrocotus divaricatus)

山椒の皮

さんしょうのかわ

pieces of young pepper tree branch (used medicinally or for pickling)

山椒魚

さんしょううお

salamander (amphibian of the order Caudata)

山椒は小粒でもぴりりと辛い

さんしょうはこつぶでもぴりりとからい

size isn't everything

山椒藻

さんしょうも

floating watermoss (Salvinia natans)

山椒餅

さんしょうもち

mochi with sanshō (Sichuan pepper)

実山椒

みさんしょう

green Japanese peppercorn

切山椒

きりざんしょう

sweetened mochi flavoured with Japanese pepper

大山椒魚

おおさんしょううお

Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus)

黒山椒魚

くろさんしょううお

Japanese black salamander (Hynobius nigrescens)

飛騨山椒魚

ひださんしょううお

Hida salamander (Hynobius kimurae)

箱根山椒魚

はこねさんしょううお

Japanese clawed salamander (Onychodactylus japonicus)

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