Illustration: In a compact apartment kitchen, a cook holds a ladle partly submerged in a saucepan of hot broth and breaks down a small lump of miso with chopsticks. Cloudy trails spread from the ladle into the surrounding liquid, while the remaining paste is visibly smaller and ragged at its edges.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

溶とく

toku

to mix into a liquid, to dissolve

Example sentences

  1. 小麦粉こむぎこを水みずで溶とく

    mix flour in water

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. 砂糖さとう10gを溶とく

    dissolve ten grams of sugar

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. 関西かんさいではウズラの生卵なまたまごをつゆに溶といて食たべる。

    In the Kansai district, a raw quail egg is mixed in the sauce.

    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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