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可燃ごみ (かねんごみ) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

可か燃ねんごみ

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Meanings

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noun

combustible waste; burnable rubbish

Refers to household waste that can be incinerated, as opposed to non-burnable or recyclable waste. Common in municipal garbage sorting contexts.

可か燃ねんごみは毎まい週しゅう火か曜よう日びに出だしてください。
Please put out burnable rubbish every Tuesday.
この袋ふくろは可か燃ねんごみ用ようです。
This bag is for combustible waste.

Written forms

可か燃ねんごみ
Standard mixed kanji-kana spelling; most common in everyday use.
可か燃ねんゴミ
Katakana variant of ごみ; often seen on signs and labels.
可か燃ねん塵ごみ
rarely-used kanji form
Rare kanji form using 塵 for ごみ; it is rarely used.

Kanji

可can, passable, approval
燃burn, blaze, glow
塵dust, trash, garbage

Similar words

不ふ燃ねんごみ
Non-burnable waste; the opposite category in garbage sorting.
資し源げんごみ
Recyclable waste; separated from burnable rubbish for resource recovery.

Etymology

Compound of 可燃 (kanen, 'combustible') and ごみ (gomi, 'rubbish'). The kanji 可 means 'possible', 燃 means 'burn', and 塵 is a rare kanji for 'dust/rubbish' used in the rare form 可燃塵.