Illustration: In a compact apartment kitchen, thick daikon rounds sit in gently bubbling broth. One translucent round rests on a slotted spoon just above the liquid, a testing skewer passing effortlessly through its center. Its softened edge bends slightly against the spoon.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

煮にえる

nieru

to be cooked by boiling

Example sentences

  1. スープがなべでぐつぐつ煮にえている。

    The soup is bubbling in the pot.

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  2. この野菜やさいはなかなか煮にえない。

    These vegetables cook slowly.

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  3. タマネギはジャガイモよりはやく煮にえる。

    Onions cook more quickly than potatoes.

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Kanji in 煮

  • 煮boil; cookOnシャKunにる・にえる・にやす

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