noun
Refers to the process of grinding or cracking grains such as wheat or barley, often into coarse pieces.
大麦の碾き割りは、味噌汁の具に使われる。
Cracked barley is used as an ingredient in miso soup.
noun
Abbreviation of 碾き割り麦; refers to the resulting product, especially barley that has been ground or cracked.
See also: 碾き割り麦
碾き割りを炊いて麦ご飯にする。
Cook cracked barley to make barley rice.
Compound of 碾き (grinding, from 碾く) and 割り (splitting, from 割る). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the spelling is conventionally associated with the meaning.