Usage patterns 〈 物もの〉 〉 を 海苔のり で 巻ま く to wrap something in a sheet of nori
I wrapped the rice ball in nori.
海苔のり を 炙あぶ る to toast/grill nori over a flame
Toasting the nori quickly before eating brings out its aroma.
ご 飯はん に 海苔のり をのせる to put a piece of nori on top of rice
I put nori on the hot rice and drizzled soy sauce over it.
Kanji 菜 vegetable, side dish, greens Don't confuse with 昆布 is a thick kelp used mainly to make dashi stock, unlike 海苔 , which is a thin dried sheet eaten directly or wrapped around rice.
海苔 (edible seaweed) and 糊 (paste/starch) are pronounced identically as のり but refer to completely unrelated things, distinguished only by kanji and context.
海苔 is dried, sheet-like laver used for sushi and onigiri, while わかめ is a different, softer species served in soups and salads.
乗り and 海苔 (edible seaweed) are homophones read のり , easily mixed up in speech despite having nothing to do with each other.
Counted with Used for flat sheets of nori (dried seaweed), as in 1枚 , 2枚 .
Trade counter for standardized bundles of nori or cloth.
For quires of nori or paper, and for tatami mats (in the 帖 spelling).
Word family· 20 dried edible seaweed
wild harvested nori; rock nori · jelly lichen; Collema lichen
funori; glue plant; Gloiopeltis seaweed · funori glue; sizing from funori
Petalonia binghamiae (edible brown algae)
first dried nori of the season; new-season nori
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oyster thief; pocket thief; brown algae (Colpomenia sinuosa)
crumbled grilled nori
Grateloupia elliptica (red alga)
egonori; Campylaephora hypnaeoides
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Written forms のり Usage 8%
gikun (meaning-based reading) or jukujikun
Standard kana spelling; usually written in kana.
海の 苔り Usage 84%
gikun (meaning-based reading) or jukujikun
Kanji spelling is common in product names and formal contexts, but the word is usually written in kana.
ノリ Usage 8%
kana-only spelling
Katakana spelling used in some commercial contexts or for emphasis.
紫の 菜り
out-dated kanji form gikun (meaning-based reading) or jukujikun
Outdated kanji usage; rarely encountered in modern Japanese.
Etymology The origin is uncertain; possibly related to ぬる (nuru, 'to be slippery') or ぬらぬら (nuranura, 'slimy'), referring to the texture of wet seaweed.
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