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Dark smoked plums
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Fumikas Sagisavas
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ジャット
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Smoked plums
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Fumikas Sagisavas
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CC0
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Wikimedia Commons
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Cropped and resized

乌梅

烏梅
wūméi
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 smoked plum

About the ingredient

水果 Fruit

Smoked unripe plums, black and wrinkled, with a sharp sour, smoky taste. They are simmered with hawthorn, liquorice and sugar into the chilled summer drink 酸梅汤.

Examples

HSK 7-9
Suānméitāng shì yòng wūméi zhǔ de.
Sour plum drink is made by simmering smoked plums.
HSK 7-9
Zhōngyī cháng yòng wūméi lái zhì késou hé fùxiè.
Traditional Chinese medicine often uses smoked plum to treat coughs and diarrhoea.

Tips

memory
乌 means "black": the unripe fruit of 梅 (the Chinese plum, Prunus mume) is smoked over a low fire until it turns black and wrinkled.

Stroke Order

乌 wū
梅 méi