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ハツカダイコン (はつかだいこん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Meanings 1
noun
radish (Raphanus sativus var. sativus)
usually written using kana alone
Refers specifically to the small, round, red-skinned radish often called 'French breakfast radish' or simply 'radish' in English. The name 二十日 (はつか) means 'twenty days', referring to its quick growing time.
種たね
を
まい
て
から
約やく
二十はつ
日か
で
収しゅう
穫かく
できる
。
Radishes can be harvested about twenty days after sowing the seeds.
Written forms ハツカダイコン
kana-only spelling
Katakana spelling is standard for this vegetable name; usually written in kana.
二十日はつか 大だい 根こん
Kanji spelling is rare and mainly found in older or formal texts; the katakana form is strongly preferred.
廿はつ 日か 大だい 根こん
Variant kanji spelling using 廿 for 二十; even rarer than 二十日大根.
Kanji 二 two, two radical (no. 7) 根 root, radical, head (pimple) Similar words 大だい 根こん 大根 is the large, long, white Japanese radish (daikon), while ハツカダイコン is a small, round, red-skinned variety.
ラディッシュ ラディッシュ is a direct loanword from English 'radish' and can refer to the same vegetable, but ハツカダイコン is the more common Japanese term.
Etymology From 二十日 (はつか, 'twenty days') + 大根 (だいこん, 'daikon radish'), referring to the plant's short growing period of about twenty days from sowing to harvest.
