Illustration: At a family kitchen counter, a child carefully holds out a deep ceramic bowl while a parent lowers a ladle of soup into it. The bowl’s open rim, curved interior, and substantial sides are clearly visible around the accumulating soup.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

器うつわ

utsuwa

bowl, vessel, container

Example sentences

  1. しかしながら、食たべ物ものを器うつわから口くちまで運はこぶ必要ひつようがあり、その必要性ひつようせいに応こたえるために、はしが現あらわれたのだった。

    There was, however, a need for food to be carried from the bowl to the mouth, and chopsticks came along to meet that need.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 器うつわに盛もり付つけ、上うえからつゆをかける。

    Serve it in a bowl, and pour the sauce over it.

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

  3. すると玉たまが器うつわにくっついて離はなれなくなった。

    The jewel got stuck to the vessel and could not be separated.

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

Kanji in 器

  • 器utensil; vesselOnキKunうつわ

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