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Pestle Wooden I Sign Cooking Mash Horse 杵

Kanji
Onyomi ショ
Kunyomi きね
Nanori
English wooden pestle
JLPT Level 0
Jouyou Grade S+
Frequency 2355
Components 木: tree; wood
午: noon; sign of the horse; 11AM-1PM; seventh sign of Chinese zodiac
Traditional Form (none)
Keyword wooden pestle
Koohii Story 1 "Tree, horse: At cooking school, I learned that there's always a relation between the item you will pestle and the size of the pestle itself. When I read in a cooking book that I had to mash up a horse with a wooden pestle, naturally a tried to obtain a tree to do the job."
Koohii Story 2 "Ah, nothing like using a wooden pestle to mash up some horse meat on a Sunday afternoon."

Tags: jlpt.n0, grades+, jinmeiyou, kanjifreq2001-2500

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