JLPT N4 · Noun

お土産 (omiyage)

お土産 (おみやげ, omiyage) is a Japanese noun meaning “local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while traveling (travelling)”. It appears in JLPT N4 vocabulary lists and is marked as a common word in JMdict.

Reading
おみやげ
Romaji
omiyage
Word class
Noun
Level
JLPT N4 (unofficial)

Meaning

  1. local specialty or souvenir bought as a gift while traveling (travelling) · noun · polite
  2. present brought by a visitor · noun · polite
  3. something unpleasant that one is given (e.g. an illness while on vacation); unwelcome gift; disservice · noun · polite

Example sentences

これは北海道からのお土産です。
This is a souvenir from Hokkaido.
波風を鎮めるにはチーズケーキのお土産が良いらしいですよ。
A gift of cheesecake is apparently good to soothe discord.

Sentences from the Tatoeba project, linked to this word in JMdict.

Kanji in お土産

Related words

Other vocabulary sharing a kanji with お土産.

Source: JMdict entry 1002500 (EDRDG, CC BY-SA 4.0). Level: unofficial JLPT list – how levels are assigned.