Illustration: At a modest neighborhood noodle shop, a customer holds a pair of plain wooden chopsticks over a steaming bowl, caught at the moment the joined end splits apart. The two sticks form a narrow V, with the fresh separation clearly visible near their upper ends.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

割わり箸ばし

waribashi

disposable chopsticks

Example sentences

  1. 和食わしょくのレストランへ行いくたびに、割わり箸ばしを家いえへもって帰かえります。

    Whenever I go to a Japanese restaurant, I take the disposable chopsticks home with me.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 割わり箸ばしは鰻屋うなぎやの発案はつあんで引ひき割わり箸ばしといった。

    The disposable wooden chopsticks were devised by eel vendors and called hikiwaribashi in those days instead of waribashi at present.

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

  3. お好このみ焼やきを割わり箸ばしの回まわりにくるくると巻まき付つけたもの。

    One that winds okonomiyaki around a chopstick.

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

Kanji in 割箸

  • 割proportion; comparativelyOnカツKunわる・わり・わり
  • 箸chopsticksOnチョ・チャクKunはし

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