Illustration: In a Japanese home bathroom, a parent presses a round rubber plug firmly into the empty bathtub’s drain before filling it. The attached chain runs visibly from the plug to its fitting on the tub. A shallow layer of newly running water gathers over the closed drain instead of escaping.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

栓せん

sen

stopper, cork, plug

Example sentences

  1. シャンパンの栓せんがぽんと音おとを立たててとんだ。

    The champagne cork popped out.

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  2. この栓せんはびんに合あわない。

    This stopper does not fit the bottle.

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  3. コルクの栓せんがどうしても抜ぬけなかった。

    The cork would not come out.

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Kanji in 栓

  • 栓plug; boltOnセン

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