Illustration: Inside a neighborhood rice shop, a shopkeeper pours brown rice from a shallow scoop into a compact rice-polishing machine. White grains fall from the lower outlet into a waiting basin, while a separate open collection drawer contains fine bran.

JLPT N2suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

精せい米まい

seimai

to polish rice

As a noun, 精米 can also mean polished rice. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 精米せいまいは、米べいに含ふくまれるタンパク質しつを取とり除のぞくために行おこなわれる。

    Rice polishing is conducted to remove protein contained in rice.

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

  2. 精米せいまいという語ごは精白せいはくする事ことと共ともに出来できた白米はくまいの意味いみでも使つかわれる。

    The term seimai is used to mean the act of polishing the rice as well as the white rice itself; other expressions for the act of polishing include seihaku and tosei.

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

  3. 今いまでは精米せいまい歩合ぶあい30％台だいの高級酒こうきゅうしゅもめずらしくなくなった。

    These days, even premium sake with rice-polishing ratios in the 30 percent range is no longer unusual.

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

Kanji in 精米

  • 精refined; ghostOnセイ・ショウKunしらげる・くわしい
  • 米rice; USAOnベイ・マイ・メエトルKunこめ・よね

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