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割り麦 (warimugi) Japanese meaning: ground barley | Kotomora

割わり麦むぎ

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Meanings

1

ground barley; cracked barley

Barley that has been coarsely ground or cracked, used in cooking.

割わり麦むぎをスープに入いれて煮に込こむ。
Add cracked barley to the soup and simmer.

Kanji

割proportion, comparatively, divide
麦barley, wheat

Word family

押おし割わり麦むぎ
pressed barley

Built from

割わる

Written forms

割わり麦むぎ
Standard kanji spelling.
割わり麦むぎ
Variant spelling without okurigana; less common.

Etymology

Compound of 割り (wari, 'splitting, cracking') + 麦 (mugi, 'barley').