Illustration: On a warm afternoon outside a small Japanese ice cream shop, a child has set an ice cream cone upright in a metal holder while carefully tying a shoelace. The scoop has sagged dramatically, with rounded edges collapsing and thick liquid running down the cone into a growing puddle on the table.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

溶とける

tokeru

to melt, to thaw

Melting snow is often written 解ける. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

氷こおりが溶とけている。
The ice is melting.
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氷こおりが溶とけると液体えきたいになる。
When ice melts, it becomes liquid.
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雪ゆきがとけはじめた。
Snow has begun to melt.
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Kanji in 溶

溶melt; dissolveOnヨウKunとける・とかす・とく

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