Illustration: At a home kitchen counter, a cook lifts a generous bundle of thick udon noodles from a plain bowl with chopsticks. The long strands hang separately, bending under their own weight and trailing back into the bowl.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

麺めん

men

noodles

Example sentences

  1. 麺めんはふつう小麦粉こむぎこから作つくられる。

    Noodles are usually made from wheat.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 早はやく食たべないと麺めんが伸のびちゃうよ。

    If you don’t eat them quickly the noodles will go soft.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 麺めんの表面ひょうめんに味あじをつけているものもある。

    There are some noodles that have been coated with seasonings.

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

Kanji in 麺

  • 麺noodles; wheat flourOnメン・ベンKunむぎこ

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