Illustration: At a modest kitchen breakfast table, a person lifts a spoonful of steaming rice porridge from a deep ceramic bowl. Soft, swollen grains sit in cloudy, gently thickened liquid, with a little porridge slowly slipping back from the spoon.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

かゆ

kayu

rice porridge

Often called おかゆ. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 若わかいときは貧乏びんぼうでかゆをすすって暮くらした。

    When he was young, he was so poor that he virtually had to live on gruel.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. お粥かゆも作つくってきました。チンして温あたためるだけですから。

    I also brought some gruel I made. It just needs warming up.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 一度通常いちどつうじょうの水分量すいぶんりょうで炊たいたご飯はんを使つかう粥かゆ。

    This is a kayu made by first cooking rice in the usual amount of water.

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

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