Kanaate #4 answers (September 25, 2026)
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4-kana answer: りょうり
Meaning
料理 can mean cooking, or a prepared dish or meal. The meaning depends on how it is used in the sentence.
Example sentences
父の料理には、季節の野菜がたくさん入っています。
Chichi no ryōri ni wa, kisetsu no yasai ga takusan haitte imasu.
My father’s cooking has lots of seasonal vegetables in it.
週末は家族みんなで料理を作りました。
Shūmatsu wa kazoku minna de ryōri o tsukurimashita.
We all cooked together as a family over the weekend.
Note
料理を作る means to cook, while 料理を味わう means to enjoy a prepared dish. The word can refer to either the activity or the food.
Related words
- 調理
- 食事
- 献立
About the shape of this word
- 4 hiragana.
- The kana "り" appear more than once. Repeated kana are colored once for each time they appear in the answer.
- It contains small kana: ょ. Use the 小 (small) key to type them.
5-kana answer: おべんとう
Meaning
A meal packed in a container so it can be carried and eaten later. It may be homemade or bought ready to eat.
Example sentences
母は朝早くから、お弁当を作ってくれました。
Haha wa asa hayaku kara, obentō o tsukutte kuremashita.
My mother made me a bento early in the morning.
公園のベンチで、お弁当を食べました。
Kōen no benchi de, obentō o tabemashita.
I ate my bento on a park bench.
Note
Obentō means the packed meal; bentōbako is the container it goes in. The polite prefix o is commonly included in everyday speech.
Related words
- 弁当箱
- 昼ごはん
- おにぎり
About the shape of this word
- 5 hiragana.
- No kana is repeated.
- It contains kana with a dakuten (voicing mark): べ. Use the ゛ key to type them.
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