Illustration: At a Japanese family dining table, a young child grips a spoon by its handle and lifts a carefully balanced mouthful of custard from a small pudding cup. The spoon’s shallow rounded bowl is plainly visible, with a little custard wobbling above its rim.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

さじ

saji

spoon

Also used in the measuring terms 大さじ and 小さじ. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしたちはさじでスープを飲のむ。

    We eat soup with a spoon.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. ご飯はんを食たべるのに匙さじを使つかう習慣しゅうかんはすたれ、ご飯碗はんわんを手てで持もって食たべるようになった。

    The custom of using a spoon for eating boiled rice went out of style, and when eating boiled rice in a rice bowl, the rice bowl was held in one hand.

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

  3. そのため、迂闊うかつに匙さじを背筋せすじを伸のばしたまま口元くちもとに運はこぶと、胸元むなもとに料理りょうりがこぼれてしまいやすい。

    Therefore, if they carelessly bring spoon closer to our mouths with our back ramrod-strait, they tend to spill the food on front of clothes.

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

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