Tsukemono
Japanese Pickled Vegetables, Japanese Pickles
noun
In Japanese, pickled things refer to Japanese pickled vegetables!
漬物 refers to Japanese pickles made by soaking vegetables like cucumbers, daikon radish, or eggplant in a solution containing ingredients like salt, rice bran paste, vinegar, and soy sauce. They're left to ferment or marinate, enhancing their flavors. In contrast, western pickles are simply called ピクルス.
You already learned 漬ける (to pickle something), so just take the る off and shove the け into the kanji. You still read it, but it's hiding. It probably shrank in the pickling process. Stick some things (もの) on there and you know the reading! Not bad!
By the way, sometimes you'll see this word spelled like 漬け物 too.
この漬物は誰が漬けたんですか。
Who pickled these tsukemono?
私はナスの漬物は苦手なんです。
I'm not a fan of pickled eggplant.
ちょっとお漬物買ってくるね！
I'll go buy some pickles real quick!
キュウリの漬物があれば、ご飯が何杯でも食べれます。
If I have pickled cucumbers, I can eat any amount of rice.