Illustration: At a family dining table, a grandparent watches a small child carefully serve them a homemade rice ball. The rice ball has become comically lopsided, with a loose piece of seaweed sticking to the child's wrist.

JLPT N3adverbLevel estimated by Bebop

にこにこ

nikoniko

smilingly, with a smile

Example sentences

  1. 彼女かのじょはいつもにこにこしている。

    She is always smiling.

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  2. 彼女かのじょはいつでもにこにこしている。

    She is always smiling.

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  3. 彼女かのじょはにこにこしてうれしそうだった。

    She was all smiles.

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