Illustration: At a compact Japanese kitchen sink, a home cook gently squeezes a bundle of blanched spinach between both hands. Clear droplets stream from the leaves into a bowl beneath them, and the compressed bundle looks visibly less wet than the glistening spinach still in the colander. The tap is off.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

水みず気け

mizuke

moisture, water content

For moisture, the usual reading is みずけ. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. お風呂ふろから上あがって脱衣所だついじょに入はいる時ときは、タオルでしっかり水気みずけを拭ふき取とりましょう。

    When you get out of the bath, dry yourself off before going into the dressing room.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 煎餅せんべいは水気みずけが多おおすぎるとポリッとしない。

    Sembei (rice crackers) don’t crunch if they have too much moisture in them.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 木きは水気みずけを吸すい取とるので、このようなすのこが湿気しっけの多おおいところで重宝ちょうほうがられる。

    Wood absorbs moisture, so sunoko is convenient in humid places like Japan.

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

Kanji in 水気

  • 水waterOnスイKunみず・みず-
  • 気spirit; mindOnキ・ケKunいき・き

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