うめ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of うめ – see the following entry.

【梅うめ】4 [noun] Japanese plum or apricot, Prunus mume [noun] a white plum blossom, as opposed to 紅梅こうばい (kōbai, “red plum blossom”) [noun] the lowest of a three-level rank system [noun] a 家紋かもん (kamon, “family crest”) with varying designs of plum blossoms [noun] Short for 梅うめ襲かさね (ume-gasane): a style of layering garments with dark crimson over light crimson [noun] (card games) the suit of plum blossoms in 花札はなふだ (hanafuda), representing the month of February [noun] (historical, colloquial) Synonym of 天神てんじん (tenjin): the second-highest ranked prostitute in Edo-period Kamigata, below the 大夫たいふ (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.)