材料
Kana: ざいりょう
material
Example sentence
料理の材料を買いに行きます。
りょうりのざいりょうをかいにいきます。
I am going to buy the ingredients for cooking.
What 材料 means
材料 (ざいりょう) is a Japanese word meaning “material”. It belongs to the Things & Objects topic and appears at Level 3 (and again in Level 4), so it is one of the words worth learning early when you study Japanese.