Illustration: At a home dining table, a child leans toward a small dish of pickled plums with intense anticipation. Their lips are slightly parted, and a thin glistening thread of saliva gathers at the lower lip before they hurriedly catch it with a tissue.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

唾つば

tsuba

saliva, spit

Example sentences

  1. シンガポールでは道路どうろに唾つばを吐はくのは犯罪はんざいです。

    In Singapore, it is a crime to spit on the ground.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. つばを吐はき出だしてください。

    Please spit.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 彼かれの唾つばの吐はき方かたが我慢がまんできない。

    I can’t put up with the way he spits.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 唾

  • 唾saliva; sputumOnダ・タKunつば・つばき

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