Illustration: At a neighborhood Japanese sweets shop, a worker brushes glossy mitarashi sauce over bamboo skewers holding rows of smooth, round rice dumplings. A shallow tray contains freshly shaped, uncoated dumplings beside a bowl of rice-flour dough.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

団だん子ご

dango

dango, Japanese rice dumpling

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしも、団子だんごが大好だいすきです。

    I also love sweet Japanese rice dumplings.

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  2. 黍きび団子だんご一ひとつください。

    Give me one millet dumpling, please.

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  3. いいえ、お団子だんごはお餅もちではありません。

    No, a dango is not a mochi.

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Kanji in 団子

  • 団group; associationOnダン・トンKunかたまり・まるい
  • 子childOnシ・ス・ツKunこ・ね

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