箕
箕: winnowing basket
winnowing basket
14 strokesNames & literary · Name kanji (準1級 range)in 4 words here
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Kunみ
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
祖母は箕で豆をあおいで、ごみを飛ばしていた。
My grandmother was fanning the beans in a winnowing basket to blow off the chaff.
昔の農家では、唐箕を回して米のもみがらを吹き分けた。
In old farmhouses, people turned a winnowing machine to blow the husks from the rice.
二十八宿のひとつに、箕宿と呼ばれる星の集まりがある。
One of the twenty-eight lunar mansions is a group of stars called the Winnowing Basket.