苺（いちご、ichigo）
- strawberry

The word 苺 (いちご) means "strawberry" in English. It refers to the sweet, red fruit that is a popular dessert and snack. It's a compound word.

⚫︎苺は甘くて美味しいです。 Translation: Strawberries are sweet and delicious. ⚫︎ケーキの上に苺がのっています。 Translation: There are strawberries on top of the cake.

You can use 苺 in any context where you would talk about strawberries. You can use it when talking about recipes, describing the fruit itself, or discussing where to find it. It is a common and straightforward word.

苺 is primarily written with the kanji 苺. The reading is いちご in hiragana. There is no katakana version commonly used for 苺 itself. The okurigana (suffix hiragana) is not applicable. There are no other common ways to write this word.

There are no direct synonyms for "strawberry" in Japanese as 苺 is the most common and direct term.

There are no direct antonyms for "strawberry".

夏には、新鮮な苺をたくさん食べます。 ・Translation: In summer, I eat a lot of fresh strawberries. ・Explanation: This sentence describes the eating habits of a person, and 苺 is specified for a certain season.

この苺はとても大きくて、甘いです。 ・Translation: This strawberry is very big and sweet. ・Explanation: The speaker is describing a specific strawberry's size and taste.

The kanji 苺 is a combination of two characters: 草 (くさ) meaning "grass" or "plant" and 母 (はは) meaning "mother." The etymological origin is that the [苺] plant produces the fruit itself as the primary component, like a "mother" giving birth to her child. However, this is not a literal translation or definition but rather the historical association. This is a bit of a poetic or indirect description. The character 母 is not directly tied to the fruit’s growth, but rather to the plant’s reproductive capacity as the primary means to produce the [苺].