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蕎 kanji
buckwheat
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- N2 vocabulary
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- 15
- School grade
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そば
Words with 蕎
LevelWord & meaningActions
- N2蕎麦Popularbuckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum); soba; Japanese buckwheat noodles; Chinese-style wheat noodles
- —蕎麦屋Popularsoba restaurant
- —蕎麦殻buckwheat chaff
- —狸蕎麦soba with tempura batter
- —藪蕎麦yabu soba; green-colored soba made from buckwheat flour milled with green buckwheat berry chaff
- —鰊蕎麦soba in hot broth, topped with a salty-sweet dried herring
- —月見蕎麦soba with egg
- —かけ蕎麦soba in hot broth; soba without any trimmings
- —ざる蕎麦zaru soba (soba served on a bamboo draining basket with dipping sauce)
- —更科蕎麦high quality soba
- —蕎麦がきbuckwheat dumpling; buckwheat mash; buckwheat dough ball
- —田舎蕎麦dark soba
- —二八蕎麦soba made with two parts wheat flour to eight parts buckwheat flour
- —蕎麦つゆsoba dipping sauce
- —姫蔓蕎麦pink-headed persicaria (Persicaria capitata); pink knotweed; pinkhead smartweed
- —蕎麦ボーロbuckwheat cookie
- —三十日蕎麦soba eaten at the end of the month (esp. at the end of the year)
- —おかめ蕎麦okame soba; soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc.
- —ぶっかけ蕎麦soba with broth poured over it
- —焼蕎麦yakisoba; fried noodles, usu. with vegetables and meat
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