Illustration: At a small Japanese home dining table, a parent twists a pepper mill over a steaming bowl of soup. Coarse dark flecks fall visibly onto the pale surface, while a tiny open dish of round dried peppercorns sits beside the bowl.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

こしょう

koshou

pepper

Example sentences

  1. コショウを入いれすぎたね。

    You put far too much pepper in it.

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  2. こしょうを取とってください。

    Please pass me the pepper.

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  3. 塩しおとこしょうを取とって下ください。

    Pass me the salt and pepper, please.

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