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庖: kitchen

kitchen; cook (庖丁)
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Readings

On
ホウ
Kun
くりや

Variant of 包丁 (ほうちょう, kitchen knife): 庖丁 is the same word. 庖厨 (ほうちゅう) is an old word for kitchen.

Key words

庖丁ほうちょうkitchen knife
出刃庖丁でばぼうちょうpointed carving knife
石庖丁いしぼうちょうstone harvesting knife
庖厨ほうちゅうkitchen (literary)

Example sentences

My grandmother always sharpens her kitchen knife carefully before she starts cooking.

The museum displays stone knives that were used to cut ears of rice.

Hōchū is an old word meaning kitchen and is hardly used today.

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