Illustration: In a compact apartment kitchen, an adult pauses while slicing an onion, blinking through tears with the knife safely lowered against the board. A whole onion with dry papery skin and a cut half with clear concentric layers sit beside the slices.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

玉たまねぎ

tamanegi

onion

Example sentences

  1. トムは玉たまねぎが嫌きらいです。

    Tom doesn’t like onions.

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  2. このスープは玉たまねぎの味あじがする。

    This soup tastes of onions.

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  3. トムは玉たまねぎを薄切うすぎりにした。

    Tom sliced the onion.

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Kanji in 玉

  • 玉jewel; ballOnギョクKunたま・たま-

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