N21150/1725

匙さじ

obsolete readingusually written using kana alonenounnoun (generic)

Reading

さじ

Meanings

spoon

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Example sentences

引ひき出だしの中なかにスプーンと匙さじが一緒いっしょに入はいっている。

Spoons and ladles are stored together in the drawer.

彼女かのじょは木製もくせいの匙さじでスープをゆっくりとかき混まぜた。

She slowly stirred the soup with a wooden spoon.

薬くすりを匙さじ一杯いっぱい分ぶんだけ飲のむように医師いしに言いわれた。

I was told by the doctor to take just one spoonful of medicine.

古ふるい文献ぶんけんでは、スプーンのことを匙さじと表記ひょうきすることが多おおかった。

In old documents, spoons were often written as 匙.

彼かれは難むずかしい問題もんだいに匙さじを投なげ、解決かいけつをあきらめてしまった。

He gave up on the difficult problem and threw in the towel.

Related words

潜るもぐる

to dive (into or under water); to get under, to get into, to get in, to creep into, to crawl under, to bury oneself, to burrow into, to dig oneself into, to snuggle under; to hide oneself (esp. from the government), to conceal oneself, to go underground

上下じょうげ

top and bottom, high and low, above and below, upper and lower ends, up and down; going up and down, rising and falling, fluctuating; going and coming back; upper and lower classes, ruler and ruled, the government and the people; first and second volumes; top and bottom, two-piece (outfit)

突くつく

to prick, to stab; to poke, to prod, to push, to thrust, to nudge, to hit, to strike; to use (a cane), to prop oneself up with, to press against (the floor, etc.); to attack; to brave (the rain, etc.)