藻
seaweed, duckweed
Readings
On'yomi
- ソウ
Kun'yomi
- も
Meaning
藻 centers on water plants: seaweed and duckweed, both floating or submerged vegetation in aquatic environments.
Most common words using 藻
20 of 80- 藻も
algae; waterweed; seaweed; duckweed
- 海藻かいそうN1
seaweed
- 藻類そうるい
seaweeds; algae; waterweeds
- 毬藻まりも
marimo (variety of algae, Cladophora aegagropila); round green algae; Cladophora ball; lake ball; moss ball
- 玉藻たまも
seaweed
- 藻屑もくず
scraps of seaweed
- 珪藻土けいそうど
diatomaceous earth; diatomite; siliceous marl; kieselguhr
- 珪藻けいそう
diatom
- 褐藻かっそう
brown algae; phaeophyceae
- カナダ藻カナダも
waterweed (any aquatic plant of genus Elodea, esp. common waterweed, Elodea canadensis)
- クリプト藻クリプトそう
cryptophyte
- ハプト藻類ハプトそうるい
haptophyte
- 三日月藻みかづきも
Closterium (genus of algae)
- 中国藻屑蟹ちゅうごくもくずがに
Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis)
- 光藻ひかりも
Ochromonas vischeri (species of golden alga)
- 円石藻えんせきそう
coccolithophorid
- 品字藻ひんじも
star duckweed (Lemna trisulca); ivy duckweed
- 寄り藻よりも
washed-up seaweed; stranded seaweed
- 小甘藻こあまも
dwarf eelgrass (Nanozostera japonica); Japanese eelgrass
- 山椒藻さんしょうも
floating watermoss (Salvinia natans)
Study
Etymology
藻 combines 艹 (grass/plant) with 澡, which likely contributes the sound ソウ and relates to water, together suggesting water plants.
Meaning mnemonic
The top 艹 is a plant, and the bottom 澡 looks like water (氵) splashing around a tree (木) with mouths (口) like bubbles. Picture seaweed swaying in bubbly water.
Reading mnemonic
For ソウ, imagine a soul (ソウ) of a seaweed floating peacefully in the ocean: soul -> ソウ, and the seaweed drifts with the current.