Illustration: In a Japanese home kitchen, a cook pulls an unusually long daikon from a reusable shopping bag, discovering that the tapered tip still has not cleared the opening. Its broad white shoulder and fresh leafy crown are already resting against the cook's arm.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

大だい根こん

daikon

daikon radish

Example sentences

  1. 大根だいこんは人参にんじんより高たかいかもしれない。

    Daikon might be more expensive than the carrots.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 大根だいこんと人参にんじんはイチョウ切ぎり、他たの野菜やさいは一口大ひとくちだいに切きる。

    Cut the daikon radish and carrot into quarter slices and cut the other vegetables into bite-size pieces.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. よく煮にえた大根だいこんに、用意よういしておいた味噌みそだれなどをつけて食たべる。

    The well-cooked Japanese radish is served with separately prepared Miso sauce

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 大根

  • 大large; bigOnダイ・タイKunおお-・おおきい
  • 根root; head (pimple)OnコンKunね

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