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料理 (りょうり, ryouri) Japanese meaning: cooking | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N5 › Freq. Frequency Top 1,000 Conjugation 料理する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 料りょう 理り する 料りょう 理り しない Polite 料りょう 理り します 料りょう 理り しません Past polite 料りょう 理り しました 料りょう 理り しませんでした Past 料りょう 理り した 料りょう 理り しなかった Te-form 料りょう 理り して 料りょう 理り しないで Desire 料りょう 理り したい 料りょう 理り したくない Potential 料りょう 理り できる 料りょう 理り できない Passive 料りょう 理り される 料りょう 理り されない Causative 料りょう 理り させる 料りょう 理り させない Causative passive 料りょう 理り させられる 料りょう 理り させられない Volitional 料りょう 理り しよう Polite volitional 料りょう 理り しましょう Imperative 料りょう 理り しろ 料りょう 理り するな Conditional 料りょう 理り すれば 料りょう 理り しなければ Tara conditional 料りょう 理り したら 料りょう 理り しなかったら
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母はは は 毎まい 日にち おいしい 料りょう 理り を 作つく っ て くれる 。
My mother cooks delicious food for me every day.
He went to Paris to study French cuisine.
Usage patterns 〈 人ひと 〉 は 料りょう 理り が 上じょう 手ず だ someone is good at cooking
〈 事こと 〉 を 料りょう 理り する to handle a matter skillfully
He skillfully handles even the toughest problems.
料りょう 理り を 作つく る to make a dish/meal
My mother made dinner for me.
料りょう 理り を 出だ す to serve a dish
The restaurant serves delicious dishes.
Expressions 男おとこ の 料りょう 理り stereotypically masculine cuisine; food enjoyed by men Kanji 理 logic, arrangement, reason Related words· 8 調理 is the more technical, formal word for the act of preparing food, while 料理 is the everyday term that also covers the finished dish.
処理 refers to mechanical or administrative handling of a task, while 料理 in its metaphorical sense implies skillful, human-centered management.
料理 is the general word for cooking, while 自炊 specifically means cooking for yourself rather than for others or professionally.
料理 is the general, common word for cooking or a dish, while 炊事 specifically means the chore of preparing meals in a household or institutional kitchen.
Show 4 more 料理 is the everyday native word for cooking and cuisine, while クッキング is a loanword with a stylish, instructional, or Western nuance often used in compounds.
料理 refers to prepared dishes or cuisine, emphasizing cooking, while 食べ物 simply means any edible item.
料理 refers broadly to a dish or cooking in general, while 一品 (sense 2) emphasizes a single dish or course within a meal.
料理 means cooking or a prepared dish, while 食品 refers more broadly to food items or products whether prepared or raw.
Counted with Used for dishes/courses in formal or menu contexts; in ordinary counting this word often takes no counter or a different context-specific one.
Used when counting servings/plates of food rather than the abstract idea of cuisine.
Etymology From Middle Chinese 料理 (lew liX), meaning 'to arrange, manage'. The cooking sense developed from the idea of arranging ingredients.
理り
N1
osechi; traditional Japanese New Year's food
