Illustration: At a Japanese family breakfast table, a small child proudly holds an empty rice bowl upside down to show they have finished. One distinct cooked rice grain remains stuck to their cheek, clearly separated from every other object.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

米こめ粒つぶ

kometsubu

grain of rice

Example sentences

床ゆかに米粒こめつぶが一ひとつ落おちている。
There’s a grain of rice on the floor.
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お弁当べんとうのふたに米粒こめつぶがついていた。
A grain of rice was stuck to the lunch box lid.
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炊たく前まえの米粒こめつぶは硬かたい。
Rice grains are hard before they’re cooked.
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Kanji in 米粒

米rice; USAOnベイ・マイ・メエトルKunこめ・よね
粒grains; dropOnリュウKunつぶ

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