single helping; one serving
Refers to a single portion of food, especially rice, served in a bowl or on a plate. Often used in contexts like restaurants or home cooking to indicate one helping.
Please give me a single helping of rice.
This set meal is served as a single portion.
Standard kanji spelling.
Variant without okurigana り; less common but still used.
Compound of 盛り (mori, 'serving' or 'heap') from verb 盛る (moru, 'to heap up, serve') and 切り (kiri, 'cut, limit') from verb 切る (kiru, 'to cut'), literally 'cut-off serving', i.e., a fixed single portion.