Illustration: Inside a wholesale tableware warehouse, a supplier hands an entire nested stack of rice bowls to a restaurant owner beside a loaded flatbed trolley. Tall shelves hold many more identical bowls packed in open cartons.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

問とん屋や

ton'ya

wholesaler

Also read といや, but とんや is usual. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 生家せいかは染物そめもの問屋とんやであった。

    His family ran a dye wholesale business.

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

  2. 日本橋にほんばしの紙かみ問屋とんやの娘むすめとして裕福ゆうふくに育そだち、女子美術大学じょしびじゅつだいがくの学生がくせいであった。

    She grew up as a daughter of a wealthy family that owned a wholesale paper store in Nihonbashi, and she was a student at the Joshi University of Art and Design.

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

  3. 伊勢屋いせやは呉服屋説ごふくやせつと米べい問屋とんや説せつがあるが不明ふめいである。

    Some said that Iseya was a kimono fabric shop while others said that it was a rice warehouse merchant, but the actual fact is unknown.

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

Kanji in 問屋

  • 問question; askOnモンKunとう・とい・とん
  • 屋roof; houseOnオクKunや

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