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箕: winnowing basket

winnowing basket
14 strokesNames & literary · Name kanji (準1級 range)in 4 words here

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A flat basket for sifting chaff from grain; now mostly met in old farm tools and names.

Key words

箕みwinnowing basket
唐箕とうみwinnowing machine
箕宿みぼしWinnowing Basket lunar mansion

Example sentences

My grandmother was fanning the beans in a winnowing basket to blow off the chaff.

In old farmhouses, people turned a winnowing machine to blow the husks from the rice.

One of the twenty-eight lunar mansions is a group of stars called the Winnowing Basket.

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