Translation guide
The English word 'curing' covers several distinct concepts: preserving food (especially meat or fish), treating an illness or medical condition, and hardening materials like resin or concrete. This guide helps learners choose the right Japanese expression for each meaning.
To preserve food by salting, smoking, drying, or pickling.
Literally 'salt-pickling', this is the most common way to refer to curing with salt. Can be used as a noun or with する to mean 'to cure with salt'.
This ham is made by salt-curing.
Cure fish with salt.
Refers specifically to smoking as a curing method. Used for smoked fish, meat, etc.
Smoked salmon keeps well.
Means 'aging' or 'ripening', often used for cured meats like prosciutto or aged cheeses. Implies a maturation process.
Aged meat has a rich flavor.
Means 'drying'. Used when curing involves dehydration, like dried fish or jerky.
Dried squid.
Verb phrase: 'to cure with salt'. The most direct way to say 'to cure (food) with salt'.
Preserve meat by curing it with salt.
To heal or remedy an illness, often implying a complete recovery.
General term for medical treatment or therapy. Can be used for curing diseases, but often implies ongoing treatment rather than a one-time cure.
This disease is difficult to cure.
A formal or medical term for 'healing' or 'cure', often used in written contexts. Focuses on the result of being cured.
Means 'complete recovery' or 'full cure'. Used when a disease or injury is completely healed.
Transitive verb meaning 'to cure' or 'to heal'. Used when a doctor or medicine cures a patient or disease.
Intransitive verb meaning 'to be cured' or 'to heal'. Used when a disease or injury gets better on its own or through treatment.
To cause a material to set or harden through a chemical or physical process.
General term for 'hardening' or 'curing' of materials like resin, concrete, or adhesives. Can be used as a noun or with する.
Epoxy resin cures with heat.
Concrete curing takes time.
Specifically used for concrete curing, meaning to maintain proper moisture and temperature conditions. Technical term in construction.
Means 'solidification' or 'curing', often used for materials that change from liquid to solid.
治す (transitive) is used when someone or something actively cures a disease. 治る (intransitive) is used when the disease or injury heals by itself or as a result of treatment. Do not confuse them.
Do not use a single Japanese word to cover all meanings of 'curing'. For food, use 塩漬け or 燻製; for medicine, use 治療 or 治す; for materials, use 硬化. Using the wrong term can cause confusion.
The healing of the wound takes time.
He was completely cured of cancer.
医者が患者を治す。
The doctor cures the patient.
風邪が治った。
My cold is cured.
コンクリートを打設後、養生する。
After pouring concrete, cure it.
Wait until the adhesive cures.