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可燃ごみ (kanengomi) Japanese meaning: combustible waste | Kotomora

可か燃ねんごみ

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Meanings

1

combustible waste; burnable rubbish

Refers to household waste that can be incinerated, as opposed to non-burnable or recyclable waste. Common in municipal garbage sorting contexts.

可か燃ねんごみは毎まい週しゅう火か曜よう日びに出だしてください。

Please put out burnable rubbish every Tuesday.

この袋ふくろは可か燃ねんごみ用ようです。

This bag is for combustible waste.

Usage patterns

可か燃ねんごみを出だすto put out/take out the burnable trash
月げつ曜よう日びと木もく曜よう日びに可か燃ねんごみを出だします。
We put out the burnable trash on Mondays and Thursdays.
可か燃ねんごみの日ひburnable trash collection day
今日きょうは可か燃ねんごみの日ひなので、朝あさ早はやくごみを出だした。
Today is burnable trash day, so I took the garbage out early in the morning.
可か燃ねんごみとして捨すてるto dispose of (something) as burnable trash
紙かみくずは可か燃ねんごみとして捨すててください。
Please dispose of paper scraps as burnable trash.
可か燃ねんごみに分ぶん別べつするto sort (waste) into the burnable category
生なまごみは可か燃ねんごみに分ぶん別べつしてください。
Please sort food scraps into the burnable trash category.

Kanji

可can, passable, approval
燃burn, blaze, glow
塵dust, trash, garbage

Related words

燃もえるゴミN3
可燃ごみ is the formal municipal/administrative term for burnable trash, while 燃えるごみ is the everyday colloquial term people use in daily conversation.
可か燃ねん物ぶつN1
可燃物 is the general term for any combustible material, while 可燃ごみ specifically refers to burnable household trash in waste-sorting systems.

Opposites

不ふ燃ねんごみ
可燃ごみ is waste that can be incinerated, while 不燃ごみ is waste that cannot be burned and must be disposed of differently.

Written forms

可か燃ねんごみ
Standard mixed kanji-kana spelling; most common in everyday use.
可か燃ねんゴミ
Katakana variant of ごみ; often seen on signs and labels.
可か燃ねん塵ごみ
rarely-used kanji form
Rare kanji form using 塵 for ごみ; it is rarely used.

Etymology

Compound of 可燃 (kanen, 'combustible') and ごみ (gomi, 'rubbish'). The kanji 可 means 'possible', 燃 means 'burn', and 塵 is a rare kanji for 'dust/rubbish' used in the rare form 可燃塵.