Illustration: Inside a small neighborhood tofu workshop, a maker tips soaked soybeans from a bowl into a grinding machine while a measured container of water waits within reach. An open sack and a shallow tray display the unprocessed beans clearly.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

原げん材ざい料りょう

genzairyou

raw materials, ingredients

Example sentences

日本にっぽんは原材料げんざいりょうのほとんどを輸入ゆにゅうしなければならない。
Japan has to import most of its raw materials.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
我々われわれは原材料げんざいりょうを輸入ゆにゅうして、製品せいひんを輸出ゆしゅつしている。
We import raw materials and export the finished products.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
「豆腐とうふ」の名称めいしょうであるものの、原材料げんざいりょうにはダイズは使用しようされていない。
Although its name is 'tofu', soybean is not used as its ingredient.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 原材料

原meadow; originalOnゲンKunはら
材lumber; logOnザイ
料fee; materialsOnリョウ

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