Illustration: Before dinner in a Japanese apartment, a child helps set a low dining table for three people. Two completed place settings each have exactly two chopsticks resting together across a chopstick rest.

Beyond N1counterLevel estimated by Bebop

膳ぜん

zen

pairs of chopsticks

Counts pairs of chopsticks. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. でも、お箸はし、一いち膳ぜんしかないの。どうしよう・・・。

    But there’s only one pair of chopsticks. What shall we do?

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  2. 新あたらしい箸はしを二膳にぜん買かった。

    I bought two new pairs of chopsticks.

    Written by AI for Bebop

  3. 家族かぞくの分ぶんの箸はしを四膳よんぜん並ならべた。

    I set out four pairs of chopsticks for the family.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 膳

  • 膳small low table; trayOnゼン・センKunかしわ・すすめる・そなえる

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