滋養|じようjiyou[0]heiban (flat)

1. nounnourishment; nutrition
   カレーのルーは非常ひじょうに滋養じように富とんでいる。↗

   Curry sauce is very nourishing.

• Synonym栄養えいようNeutralThe standard everyday word, covering nutrition and the body's intake of it. 「滋養」 sounds old-fashioned and now turns up mainly in 「滋養強壮」.
• Synonym栄養分えいようぶんNeutralRefers to the nutrients contained in food, with the focus on the components themselves; more modern in feel than 「滋養」.
• Synonym養いやしないWrittenMeans nourishment, but also upbringing and cultivation; archaic in flavor and rarely used today.
• Synonym養分ようぶんNeutralNutrients required by plants or the body, used chiefly for plants and soil.
• Synonym滋養分じようぶんWrittenA written-style synonym of 「栄養分」; an older term that is seldom used today.
• Synonym栄養物えいようぶつWrittenA written-style term for the nutrients food must provide to keep the body healthy, also for nourishing food; rare today, while 「滋養」 survives chiefly in 「滋養強壮」.
• Related栄養素えいようそNeutralDenotes specific nutrients such as proteins and vitamins; a somewhat scientific term.

Use 「栄養」 in everyday talk about nutrition, 「栄養素」 for specific nutrients, and 「養分」 for plants and soil. 「滋養」 itself now appears mostly in drug ads like 「滋養強壮」.

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1. 栄養えいようとなるもの。