Illustration: In a Japanese kitchen, a parent wraps a thin, dark sheet of nori around the lower half of a triangular rice ball. A stack of crisp rectangular sheets rests beside several finished rice balls, their pale rice contrasting with the seaweed wrappers.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

海苔のり

nori

nori seaweed

Example sentences

  1. 焼やきのりの香かおりが食欲しょくよくをそそる。

    The aroma of toasted nori whets the appetite.

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  2. おにぎりに海苔のりを巻まいた。

    I wrapped nori around a rice ball.

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  3. スーパーで海苔のりを一袋買ひとふくろかった。

    I bought a packet of nori at the supermarket.

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Kanji in 海苔

  • 海sea; oceanOnカイKunうみ
  • 苔moss; lichenOnタイKunこけ・こけら

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