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落花生 (らっかせい, rakkasei) Japanese meaning: peanut | Kotomora

落らっ花か生せい

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Meanings

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peanut; groundnut

Refers to the plant or its edible seed. Common in everyday language and news.

落らっ花か生せいは千ち葉ば県けんの特とく産さん品ひんです

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Peanuts are a specialty of Chiba Prefecture.

落らっ花か生せいを炒いって食たべる。

I roast and eat peanuts.

Kanji

落fall, drop, come down
花flower
生life, genuine, birth

Related words

ピーナッツ
落花生 is the formal, agricultural/botanical term for peanut, while ピーナッツ is the everyday loanword used mainly in food contexts.

Word family

落らっ花か生せい油ゆ
peanut oil

Built from

落らっ花か+生せい

Written forms

落らっ花か生せい
Standard kanji spelling; commonly used in news and formal contexts.
ラッカセイ
kana-only spelling
Katakana spelling often used in botanical or agricultural contexts, or for emphasis.

Etymology

Borrowed from Chinese 落花生, literally “fruit produced after the flower falls.” The name refers to the plant’s fertilized ovary entering the soil, where the peanut pod develops.