rainy season; wet season
Refers to the period of the East Asian rainy season, typically early summer in Japan. Often used in contexts like weather, seasonal greetings, or planning.
Laundry is hard to dry during the rainy season.
You need to be careful because mold tends to grow during the rainy season.
雨季 is a more general term for a rainy season in any region, whereas 梅雨時 is specific to the East Asian monsoon rainy season.
Standard kanji spelling for the rainy season period.
Search-only form; not a standard spelling.
梅雨 entered Japanese with the Sino-Japanese reading ばいう; its native reading つゆ is of uncertain origin. Proposed connections include 露 “dew” and the season’s tendency to spoil or ripen fruit, but none is conclusive.