Illustration: In a home kitchen, a parent lifts the lid of a rice-cooking pot to reveal freshly cooked rice with plump, distinct grains and little steam holes across the surface. Steam rises as they gently loosen the rice with a paddle.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

炊たく

taku

to cook rice or other grains

Example sentences

  1. ご飯はんの上手じょうずなたき方かたを知しっていますか。

    Do you know how to cook rice well?

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  2. これがお米こめの炊たき方かたです。

    This is how we cook rice.

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  3. 炊飯器すいはんきでご飯はんを炊たくよ。

    We cook rice in a rice cooker.

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Kanji in 炊

  • 炊cook; boilOnスイKunたく

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