粥

Meaning

粥 centers on a soft, boiled grain dish: rice gruel or congee. It is a simple, nourishing food made by cooking rice in plenty of water.

• 粥かゆ
  N1

  thin rice porridge; watery cooked rice; rice gruel; congee

• 七草粥ななくさがゆ

  rice gruel traditionally eaten on the 7th day of the new year containing the seven plants of spring

• お粥おかゆ

  thin rice porridge; watery cooked rice; rice gruel; congee

• パン粥パンがゆ

  bread porridge

• 全粥ぜんがゆ

  thick rice gruel; soft cooked rice

• 冬至粥とうじがゆ

  adzuki bean rice gruel eaten on the day of the winter solstice (to chase away demons that spread contagious diseases)

• 十夜粥じゅうやがゆ

  rice gruel served in temples for ten-night memorial services

• 小豆粥あずきがゆ

  rice gruel with adzuki beans

• 朝粥あさがゆ

  breakfast rice gruel

• 白粥しらがゆ

  unflavored rice porridge; rice porridge made of only white rice and water

• 粥かき棒かゆかきぼう

  wooden ladle or rod used to stir the rice porridge used in a kayuura divination

• 粥占かゆうら

  rice porridge divination; harvest divination carried out during Koshōgatsu

• 粥杖かゆづえ

  wand used when preparing gruel for the 15th of the first month (said to cure sterility in women)

• 粥柱かゆばしら

  mochi added to rice gruel (15th of the first month)

• 粥状じゅくじょう

  arthero-; atheromatous

• 粥状硬化じゅくじょうこうか

  atherosclerosis; atherosclerotic

• 粥腫しゅくしゅ

  atheroma

• 粥腹かゆばら

  surviving on rice gruel

• 糜粥びじゅく

  chyme

• 芋粥いもがゆ

  rice gruel with diced sweet potatoes

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