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味覚 (みかく): taste, palate, sense of taste — Japanese vocabulary

味覚 is read みかく and means "taste, palate, sense of taste". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

味覚

Reading
みかく · mikaku
Translation
taste, palate, sense of taste
Level
JLPT N1
Pitch accent
みかくが

Example

風邪で彼の味覚は鈍くなっていた。

かぜでかれのみかくはにぶくなっていた。

A cold dulled his taste.

Kanji in this word

  • 味 — taste
  • 覚 — memorize, awake

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