Illustration: In a compact home kitchen, a cook lowers a handful of wrinkled dried shiitake into a glass bowl of water. Several mushrooms are already submerged, while one buoyant cap keeps bobbing back to the surface beneath the cook's fingertips.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

漬つける

tsukeru

to soak, to dip

It can also mean to pickle. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

彼かれはスプーンをスープの中なかにつけた。
He dipped his spoon into the soup.
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彼女かのじょは汚よごれた皿さらを流ながしに浸つけた。
She put the dirty dishes in the sink.
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靴下くつしたの臭においが気きになる時ときは、クエン酸水さんすいに漬つけるといいそうよ。
If you’re worried about your socks smelling, dipping them in citric acid solution might do the trick.
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Kanji in 漬

漬pickling; soakOnシKunつける・つかる

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