Meaning

Primary

Baked Sweet Potato

Alternative

Roasted Sweet Potato

Word Type

noun

Explanation

Baked potato is actually baked sweet potato (or roasted sweet potato). Although it's literally just potato, most Japanese speakers will automatically think of sweet potato when they hear this word. Yum! 🍠

Reading

やきいも
  • Kyoko
    (Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi
    (Tokyo accent, male)

Explanation

The reading is the readings from 焼く and put together.

Context

Common Word Combinations

  • 焼き芋を作る

    to make a baked sweet potato

    焼き芋を食べる

    to eat a baked sweet potato

    焼き芋を買う

    to buy a baked sweet potato

    焼き芋を分ける

    to share a baked sweet potato

Context Sentences

学祭で焼き芋を出すことになった。

It's been decided that we are going to serve baked sweet potatoes at the school festival.

子どもたちにたき火で焼き芋をすると言ったら、ワクワクして喜んでいました。

When I told the children that we would bake sweet potatoes in a bonfire, they were excited and delighted.

私の彼氏、本当にムカつくんだけど!私がすっごくすっごく楽しみしてた焼き芋、食べちゃったの。

My boyfriend is such a jerk! He ate my roasted sweet potato that I’d been really, really looking forward to eating.

Kanji Composition