日本語
Kanji
N1 15 strokes Grade 8 freq #2156

chopsticks

On'yomi (音読み)

Kun'yomi (訓読み)

Radical (部首)

bamboo take

Others with this radical

On'yomi compounds (音読み)

taking food directly from a communal dish with one's own chopsticks
living a lavish lifestyle; ivory chopsticks and jade cups
single chopstick stuck upright into the bowl of rice offered to the deceased at their funeral
tongs (esp. for incense or for use in a Buddhist temple)
incense chopsticks
festive chopsticks; thick round chopsticks used on festive occasions
joining both chopsticks together and using them as a spoon (breach of chopstick etiquette)

Kun'yomi words (訓読み)

chopsticks
dispensable chopsticks; throwaway chopsticks
hopeless; incorrigible
to take up one's chopsticks (to begin a meal); to start to eat
chopstick stand
passing food from one person's chopsticks to another's (a breach of etiquette)
passing a bone fragment from one pair of chopsticks to another while placing the remains of the deceased in a funerary urn; two people picking up the same bone fragment with chopsticks at the same time
simple and light soup taken between courses in a kaiseki meal, or during a formal tea ceremony
thick chopsticks with both ends equally thin
age at which even the slightest things seem funny (esp. said of girls in their late teens); age where even chopsticks rolling is amusing

Example sentences

You must be quite accustomed to using chopsticks by now.

We use chopsticks in place of knives and forks.