Illustration: At a Japanese family dinner, a parent lifts a rounded ladle from a pot of miso soup and brings it toward an empty bowl. The ladle visibly contains broth, tofu, and wakame, with a few drops falling back into the pot. Their other hand holds the receiving bowl close beneath it.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

すくう

sukuu

to scoop, to ladle out

The kanji 掬う distinguishes this from 救う, meaning to rescue. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. まず柄杓ひしゃくを右手みぎてで持もって水みずをすくい、その水みずを左手ひだりてに3回かいかけて清きよめる。

    First, take one of the ladles by your right hand, fill it with water, and rinse the left hand by pouring some of the water over the hand three times.

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

  2. どうしてもソースを2度以上どいじょうつけたい場合ばあいは、ソースをキャベツで掬すくって付つけることも許ゆるされている。

    For a customer who desperately wants to dip it in the sauce more than once, cabbages can be used to scoop the sauce.

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

  3. その煤すすを小皿こざらのような蓋ふたで受うけ止とめ、付ついた煤すすを鳥とりの羽はねですくい取とるように集あつめる。

    Catch the soot with a small dish like a lid, then gather the attached soot with a bird feather by scooping.

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

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