Meaning

Primary

Breakfast

Word Type

noun

Explanation

You know how 晩ご飯 is "dinner"? Well, that word is so 12 hours ago. This is morning and in the morning your meal is breakfast.

Reading

あさごはん
  • Kyoko
    (Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi
    (Tokyo accent, male)

Explanation

The readings are the ones you learned with the kanji. It's also like the vocab: is like the vocab version, あさ and ご飯 is like the word you learned, ごはん.

Context

Context Sentences

朝ご飯の美味しそうなにおいに鼻がひくひくしました。

My nose twitched when I smelled the delicious breakfast.

わが家の朝ご飯は、ご飯と味そしる、玉子やきに干し魚と決まっています。

Our family always has rice, miso soup, omelets, and dried fish for breakfast.

「ねぇ、さっきコウイチにサプライズ朝ご飯パーティーの事を教えたでしょ?」「えっ!サプライズだったなんて知らなかった!」

"Did you just tell Koichi about his surprise breakfast party?" "Oh! I didn’t know it was a surprise."

Kanji Composition