Illustration: At a Japanese home kitchen counter, a cook slices a fresh fish fillet into sashimi with a long kitchen knife. The exposed flesh is glossy and slightly translucent, and the unsliced portion retains its silver skin. Neat uncooked slices rest on a plate beside shredded daikon.

JLPT N3no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

生なま

nama

raw, uncooked, fresh

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれは生なまの魚さかなを食たべない。

    He doesn’t eat raw fish.

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  2. 生なまパスタはありますか？

    Do you have any fresh pasta?

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  3. 我々われわれは魚さかなを生なまで食たべる。

    We eat fish raw.

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Kanji in 生

  • 生life; genuineOnセイ・ショウKunいきる・いかす・なま

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