Word · 単語
表
Reading おもて
surface
- 1 surface
- 2 face (i.e. the visible side of an object)
- 3 front (of a building, etc.), obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin
- 4 outside, exterior
- 5 appearance
- 6 public
- 7 first half (of an inning), top (of an inning)
- 8 cover (for tatami mats, etc.)
- 9 foreground
- 10 Omotesenke school of tea ceremony
N4
JLPT
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strokes
#1646
frequency
Not started
Mastered counts as known everywhere (frontier, map, extension) but never appears in the quiz again. New wipes the review history for this item.
例文 · examples
表か裏か。
Heads or tails?
sense 3 · front (of a building, etc.)
表に出ようか。
Shall we take this outside?
sense 4 · outside
この紙はどちらが表だか見分けがつかない。
I cannot tell which is the right side of this paper.
sense 2 · face (i.e. the visible side of an object)
ものにはたいてい表と裏がある。
With most things there's both what you see and what's behind it.
sense 6 · public
下駄を突っかけて表に飛び出した。
I slipped on my geta and dashed outside.
sense 4 · outside