Illustration: At a home dining table, a diner tastes a generous piece of simply steamed white fish, lifting its delicate flakes with chopsticks. The plate contains clear cooking juices and a few turnip slices, with no heavy sauce or oily coating.

JLPT N1na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

淡たん白ぱく

tanpaku

light, mild in flavor

Example sentences

  1. 圧力釜あつりょくかまで炊たいた玄米げんまいに比くらべると味あじが淡白たんぱくで、主食しゅしょくとして副食料理ふくしょくりょうりに合あう。

    Compared to brown rice cooked in a pressure cooker, it has a light taste which goes well with accompanying dishes as a staple food.

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

  2. 酒粕さけかすに漬つけたものは味あじが淡泊たんぱくであり、みりん粕かすに漬つけたものは濃厚のうこうな甘味あまみがある。

    The food pickled in sake lees has a light flavor while the one pickled in sweet sake lees has a sweet, rich flavor.

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

  3. カリカリした歯はざわりと甘あまいが淡白たんぱくな味あじが特徴とくちょうである。

    It is crunchy and sweet, but bland in taste.

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

Kanji in 淡白

  • 淡thin; faintOnタンKunあわい
  • 白whiteOnハク・ビャクKunしろ・しら-・しろい

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