Illustration: A family gathers around a low table on New Year's morning as a grandmother lifts the lid from stacked lacquered food boxes. The compartments contain black soybeans, rolled omelet slices, herring roe, curved prawns, lotus-root slices, and carefully arranged fish cake.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

おせち料りょう理り

osechiryouri

traditional New Year dishes

Example sentences

  1. したがって近年きんねんではデパートや料亭りょうていなどのおせち料理りょうりが購入こうにゅうされることがある。

    Accordingly, osechi dishes are now sometimes purchased at department stores or restaurants.

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

  2. また、お節料理せちりょうりを自宅じたくで作つくらずに既成きせいの詰つめ合あわせのお節料理せちりょうりを、食料品店しょくりょうひんてん、百貨店ひゃっかてん、インターネット上じょうの店舗てんぽその他たで買かい求もとめる人々ひとびとも増ふえている。

    Furthermore, people increasingly purchase ready-made packed osechi dishes at grocery stores and department stores, or from Internet sites, instead of preparing them at home.

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

  3. いずれも当地とうちではおせち料理りょうりの定番ていばんとなっている。

    They are all standard osechi dishes in this area.

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

Kanji in 料理

  • 料fee; materialsOnリョウ
  • 理logic; arrangementOnリKunことわり

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