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蕎
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Food, cooking
buckwheat dumpling; buckwheat mash; buckwheat dough ball
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chilled soba served on a dish (often on a wicker basket or in a shallow steaming basket) with dipping sauce
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Food, cooking
warm soba noodles (esp. for dipping, either served after being boiled, or cooled and then rewarmed)
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soba in soup with slices of boiled fish paste, shiitake mushrooms, greens, seaweed, etc.
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Word usually written using kana alone
freckle; lentigo; ephelis
Examples
家では赤味がかった髪とそばかすのせいで、母が侮蔑を込めて「にんじん」と名付け、皆にもそう呼ばせています。
At home, because of his reddish hair and freckles, his mother scornfully named him "carrot" and had everybody else call him that.
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蕎麦滓 only; Archaic; Orig. meaning
buckwheat chaff
