Illustration: At a family breakfast table, a child has exactly one cooked rice grain stuck to the tip of their nose. They squint downward trying to locate it while a parent gently points with a clean fingertip held nearby.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

粒つぶ

tsubu

grain, bead, drop

Example sentences

  1. 米こめ粒つぶ一ひとつだって無駄むだにしちゃ駄目だめなんだよ。

    We shouldn’t waste even one grain of rice.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 普通ふつうの米こめより、大おおきくて、粒つぶの中心ちゅうしんが白しろい。

    The grain of Yamada-nishiki is larger and whiter in the middle than the grain of normal rice.

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

  3. こういった過程かていを経へて粒つぶの大おおきな砂すなから落下らっかしていく。

    Through these processes, larger-grain sand in the dust falls first.

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

Kanji in 粒

  • 粒grains; dropOnリュウKunつぶ

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