Meaning

Primary

Maple Sugar

Word Type

noun

Explanation

Maple sugar is maple sugar!

While you sometimes see 楓糖 on packaging for maple sugar or products made with it, in everyday life it's more common to just say メープルシュガー.

Reading

かえでとう
  • Kyoko
    (Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi
    (Tokyo accent, male)
ふうとう
  • Kyoko
    (Tokyo accent, female)
  • Kenichi
    (Tokyo accent, male)

Explanation

uses the kun'yomi and uses the on'yomi. You already learned both of these, so you should have no problem with this word's reading: かえでとう. You might see some stores use this instead of メープルシュガー to keep things short and… maple-sweet.

楓糖 can also be read as ふうとう, using the on'yomi for both kanji. Since contains the component, it makes sense that its on'yomi is ふう, right? Just know that ふうとう sounds a bit more technical or formal than something you'd sprinkle in your morning oatmeal.

Context

Context Sentences

料理には砂糖の代わりに楓糖を使うことが多いです。

I often use maple sugar instead of sugar in my cooking.

Kanji Composition