椒

Meaning

椒 refers specifically to the Japanese pepper tree, a plant whose berries are used as a spice.

• 胡椒こしょう
  N3

  pepper

• 山椒さんしょう

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

• 大山椒魚おおさんしょううお

  Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus)

• 山椒魚さんしょううお

  salamander

• 青椒肉絲チンジャオロース

  Chinese-style stir-fry containing green peppers and meat; pepper steak (US)

• 切山椒きりざんしょう

  sweetened mochi flavoured with Japanese pepper

• 実山椒みさんしょう

  green Japanese peppercorn; unripe Japanese peppercorn

• 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; something might be small but still pack a punch; Japanese pepper is small-grained but has a tongue-numbing tingle

• 山椒喰さんしょうくい

  ashy minivet (species of passerine bird, Pericrocotus divaricatus)

• 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)

• 斑山椒魚ぶちさんしょううお

  buchi salamander (Hynobius naevius)

• 柚子胡椒ゆずこしょう

  condiment paste made from yuzu zest and chili peppers (chile)

• 烏山椒からすざんしょう

  ailanthus-like prickly ash (Zanthoxylum ailanthoides)

• 犬山椒いぬざんしょう

  mastic-leaf prickly ash (Zanthoxylum schinifolium); Japanese prickly ash; Japanese pepper

• 箱根山椒魚はこねさんしょううお

  Japanese clawed salamander (Onychodactylus japonicus)

• 胡椒草こしょうそう

  garden cress (Lepidium sativum)

• 胡椒鯛こしょうだい

  crescent sweetlips (species of fish, Plectorhinchus cinctus)

• 花椒かしょう

  Chinese prickly-ash (Zanthoxylum bungeanum); Sichuan pepper (spice); Szechuan peppercorn

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