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のり (nori) Japanese meaning: nori | Kotomora
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I wrapped the rice ball with nori and ate it.
This nori has a nice aroma and can be eaten as a snack.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
新しん 海の 苔り
first dried nori of the season; new-season nori
Show 5 more laver; edible seaweed
oyster thief; pocket thief; brown algae (Colpomenia sinuosa)
crumbled grilled nori
Grateloupia elliptica (red alga)
egonori; Campylaephora hypnaeoides
紫の 菜り
out-dated kanji form gikun (meaning-based reading) or jukujikun
Outdated kanji usage; rarely encountered in modern Japanese.
