Illustration: At a Japanese kitchen counter, an adult helps a child stir sugar into a clear glass of room-temperature water. A spoonful of granules has just entered the water: individual crystals remain visible near the spoon, while the swirling liquid farther away is clear and no longer contains visible grains.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

溶とかす

tokasu

to dissolve in a liquid

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれはコーヒーに砂糖さとうを溶とかした。

    He dissolved some sugar in his coffee.

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  2. 砂糖さとうをお湯ゆで溶とかしなさい。

    Dissolve sugar in hot water.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. アルコール濃度のうどの低ひくい酒さけに炭酸たんさんガスを溶とかし込こんで製造せいぞうする。

    This is a method of dissolving carbon dioxide into sake of low alcohol content to produce happo Nihon-shu.

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

Kanji in 溶

  • 溶melt; dissolveOnヨウKunとける・とかす・とく

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