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材料

JLPT N3 · Vocabulary

材料 — “material, ingredients”

材料 (read ざいりょう) means material, ingredients. It appears on the JLPT N3 vocabulary list and is a noun.

Reading

ざいりょう

Meaning

material, ingredients

材料 in a sentence

料理りょうりの材料ざいりょうを買かう。

I buy the ingredients for the dish.

The kanji in 材料

材material
料material; fee

Words that share a kanji with 材料

材木ざいもく— timber, lumber, wood
木材もくざい— wood, lumber, timber
料理りょうり— cooking; cuisine
給料きゅうりょう— salary, wages
資料しりょう— materials, data, documents
料金りょうきん— fare, charge, fee
食料品しょくりょうひん— foodstuffs, groceries
食料しょくりょう— food, provisions

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