Illustration: At a small seafood restaurant counter, a cook places a ceramic plate of freshly sliced raw tuna and sea bream before a diner. The moist slices are arranged against shredded daikon with a shiso leaf and a small mound of wasabi. A separate soy-sauce dish waits beside the diner’s chopsticks.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

刺さし身み

sashimi

sashimi, sliced raw seafood

Example sentences

  1. 日本にっぽんに来きて初はじめて刺身さしみを食たべたんだ。

    It was not until I came to Japan that I ate sashimi.

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  2. 私わたしは刺身さしみが大嫌だいきらいです。

    I can’t stand raw fish.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 彼女かのじょは刺さし身みを食たべます。

    She eats sliced raw fish.

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Kanji in 刺身

  • 刺thorn; pierceOnシKunさす・ささる・さし
  • 身somebody; personOnシンKunみ

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