Illustration: On a Japanese home kitchen counter, a halved cabbage rests with its cut face toward the viewer, exposing tightly layered leaves around a thick, pale central stalk. A cook has cut a triangular wedge from the base and lifts that firm core out with one hand, leaving its matching cavity visible.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

芯しん

shin

core, center

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしは体からだの芯しんまで冷ひえ切きった。

    I was frozen to the bone.

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  2. 林檎りんごの芯しんは食たべないよ。

    I don’t eat apple cores.

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  3. あの組織そしきは芯しんまで、腐くさっている。

    That organization is corrupt to the core.

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Kanji in 芯

  • 芯wickOnシン

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