Illustration: In a small home kitchen, a cook lowers a steaming metal saucepan into a larger basin filled with water and ice cubes. One hand steadies the saucepan while the other stirs its contents, bringing the hot mixture into contact with the chilled sides.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

冷れい却きゃく

reikyaku

to cool

Example sentences

  1. 包装ほうそうする前まえに中なかまで十分じゅうぶんに冷却れいきゃくする。

    Cool down onigiri sufficiently to the inside before packaging.

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

  2. 冷蔵庫れいぞうこなどの冷却れいきゃくでは表面ひょうめんが冷ひえるだけの場合ばあいがあるので注意ちゅういする事こと。

    Note that cooling in a refrigerator and others occasionally cools down only the surface.

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

  3. 特とくに大型おおがたのものなどは窯出かまだしによる急速きゅうそくな冷却れいきゃくにより割われることもあり注意ちゅういが必要ひつようである。

    Caution needs to be exercised especially when large-sized ware is removed as it might be cracked due to the rapid temperature loss during the procedure.

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

Kanji in 冷却

  • 冷cool; cold (beer, person)OnレイKunつめたい・ひえる・ひや
  • 却instead; on the contraryOnキャクKunかえって・しりぞく・しりぞける

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