also: かんしょ
Refers to the root vegetable Ipomoea batatas. Commonly eaten roasted, steamed, or in sweets. Often written in kana or katakana.
In autumn, I buy sweet potatoes at the roasted sweet potato stand.
Sweet potatoes are rich in dietary fiber.
We roasted sweet potatoes on stones and ate them.
When you steam sweet potatoes, they become fluffy.
In autumn, we dug up sweet potatoes in the field.
Used for sweet potatoes as long, slender objects.
Commonly used for counting whole sweet potatoes (さつま芋), e.g. as individual pieces or items.
Literary or technical kanji spelling; reading かんしょ is rare in everyday use.
Full kanji spelling; 薩摩 refers to the Satsuma region.
Katakana spelling is very common, especially in botanical or culinary contexts.