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肥満 (ひまん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora
Common word JLPT N2 Freq. Frequency Top 20,000 Conjugation Meanings 1
noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
obesity ; excess body fat ; corpulence
Used as a noun, の-adjective, and intransitive する-verb. It is common in health and medical contexts and sounds more clinical or objective than everyday phrases like 太り過ぎ.
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A balance between diet and exercise is important for preventing obesity.
Kanji 肥 fertilizer, get fat, fertile Similar words 太ふと り 過す ぎ More everyday and less clinical; often means simply being overweight, while 肥満 more strongly suggests obesity as a health condition.
太ふと る A general verb meaning to gain weight or become fat; 肥満 is a noun or する-verb referring to the state or condition of obesity.
メタボ Casual abbreviation related to metabolic syndrome; it overlaps in everyday talk but is not the same as the more general term 肥満.
Etymology A Sino-Japanese compound written with 肥, associated with fatness or plumpness, and 満, associated with fullness. The compound conventionally refers to excessive body fat or obesity.
