individual plate; personal small dish
A small plate or dish used by one person to hold food taken from shared serving dishes, common in family-style or izakaya dining.
Please take food from the large serving dish onto your individual plate and eat.
We're short on small plates; could you bring a few more?
Standard kanji spelling.
Simplified variant; less common but still seen.
Compound of 取り (tori, 'taking', from 取る) and 皿 (sara, 'plate'). Literally 'taking plate'.