noun
The outer layer of rice grains removed during polishing; used in pickling (ぬか漬け) and as animal feed.
糠で野菜を漬けると美味しいぬか漬けができる。
Pickling vegetables in rice bran makes delicious nukazuke.
精米すると糠が出る。
Rice bran is produced when polishing rice.
Native Japanese word. The kanji 糠 is a phono-semantic compound with 米 (rice) and 康 (phonetic component), but the exact historical derivation of the reading ぬか is uncertain.