Illustration: At the open work counter of a neighborhood rice-cracker shop, a maker turns round senbei over a wire grill with long chopsticks. A cooling rack holds finished crackers with gently blistered surfaces, including a few partly wrapped in nori.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

せんべい

senbei

Japanese rice cracker

Example sentences

  1. お母かあさん、このおせんべい、しけってておいしくないよ。

    Mum, the rice crackers have gotten damp and they’re not nice anymore.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. あらやだ、このお煎餅せんべいもう湿気しけってる。

    Yecch. This rice cracker is soggy.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 場合ばあいによっては醤油味しょうゆあじ・塩味しおあじを「せんべい」、甘あまいものを「せんぺい」と呼よび分わける例れいもある。

    In some cases, 'senbei' means those seasoned with soy sauce or salt and 'senpei' refers to sweet ones.

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

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