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ビタミン

also: ヴィタミン · バイタミン

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Common wordJLPTN3Freq.FrequencyTop 10,000

Meanings

1

noun

vitamin

A common noun for vitamins as nutrients, used in everyday, health, food, and medical contexts. Often appears in compounds such as ビタミンC and ビタミン剤.

from German

この野や菜さいにはビタミンが多おおく含ふくまれている。
This vegetable contains a lot of vitamins.
風邪かぜ気ぎ味みなので、ビタミンCを取とるよう

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Since I feel like I am coming down with a cold, I try to take vitamin C.

Written forms

ビタミンUsage100%
Standard and common katakana spelling for this loanword.
ヴィタミンUsage<1%
Attested variant spelling using ヴィ; less common than ビタミン.
バイタミン
Attested variant closer to an English-style pronunciation; much less common in ordinary Japanese than ビタミン.

Similar words

栄えい養よう素そ
Means 'nutrient' in general; ビタミン is one type of 栄養素.
サプリメント
Means 'supplement'; a サプリメント may contain vitamins, but it is a product form rather than the nutrient itself.

Etymology

A loanword from German Vitamin, 's language-of-origin information. The variants ヴィタミン and バイタミン reflect alternative renderings of foreign pronunciations.