Illustration: At a quiet family celebration in a Japanese home, an older adult holds a small, shallow lacquer sake cup carefully in both hands. Another adult tilts a ceramic sake flask, sending a fine stream into the cup's broad, gently curved bowl.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

盃さかずき

sakazuki

sake cup

Also written 杯; in 乾杯, 杯 is read はい. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. その後ごは亭主ていしゅと客きゃくが1つの盃さかずきで酒さけを注そそぎ合あう。

    After that the host and the guest share one sake cup.

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

  2. 江戸時代えどじだいでは上方かみがたでも江戸えどでも、宴うたげの初はじめのうちは盃さかずきで酒さけを受うけ、宴うたげも半なかばを過すぎ座ざがくだけてくると猪口ちょこに変かえたという。

    In the Edo period, both in Kamigata and in Edo, people are said to have used sake cups at the start of a gathering, then switched to small cups once the gathering was past its midpoint and the atmosphere had grown more relaxed.

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

  3. 「盃さかずきを交かわす」「盃さかずきを取とらせる」といった表現ひょうげんがあるように、日本文化にっぽんぶんかの中なかでは盃さかずきはたんに酒さけを飲のむ容器ようきであるだけではなく、人間関係にんげんかんけい、名誉めいよ、格式かくしきなどのさまざまな文化事象ぶんかじしょうと関係かんけいした複雑ふくざつな媒体ばいたいである。

    As expressions such as “exchange sake cups” and “offer someone a sake cup” suggest, in Japanese culture a sake cup is more than a vessel for drinking sake: it is also associated with human relationships, honor, social standing, and other cultural practices.

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

Kanji in 盃

  • 盃glass; cupOnハイKunさかずき

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