Illustration: At an ordinary family dinner, a young guest begins planting a pair of chopsticks upright in a bowl of rice to free both hands. Before the chopsticks settle, the nearest diner gently catches the guest’s wrist while another urgently offers a chopstick rest.

タブー

tabuu

taboo

Example sentences

その話はなしはここではタブーです。
The topic is taboo here.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
かつて女性じょせいの喫煙きつえんはタブー視しされていた。
It used to be taboo for women to smoke.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
当時とうじ「豊臣秀吉とよとみひでよし」はタブーであった。
At that time 'Hideyoshi TOYOTOMI' was a forbidden subject.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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