うめ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of うめ – see the following entry.
【梅】4
[noun] Japanese plum or apricot, Prunus mume
[noun] a white plum blossom, as opposed to 紅梅 (kōbai, “red plum blossom”)
[noun] the lowest of a three-level rank system
[noun] a 家紋 (kamon, “family crest”) with varying designs of plum blossoms
[noun] short for 梅襲 (ume-gasane): a style of layering garments with dark crimson over light crimson
[noun] (card games, hanafuda) the suit of plum blossoms in a hanafuda deck, representing the month of February in most regions, or December in games from the Nagoya region
[noun] (historical, colloquial) synonym of 天神 (tenjin): the second-highest ranked prostitute in Edo-period Kamigata, below the 大夫 (tayū)
[proper noun] a female given name
[proper noun] a surname
Alternative spellings
楳, ウメ
(This term, うめ (ume), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
For a list of all kanji read as うめ, see Category:Japanese kanji read as うめ.)
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