Word Meaning 豚骨

とんこつ tonkotsu

豚骨 is read as とんこつ (tonkotsu) and means dish made with pork belly and bones, simmered with miso, sake, vegetables, etc. (from Kagoshima).

Meaning

English

  1. dish made with pork belly and bones, simmered with miso, sake, vegetables, etc. (from Kagoshima)

Reading

Kana

とんこつ

Romaji

tonkotsu

Stroke Sequence

2 Characters • 21 Total Strokes

Study Signals and Categories

JLPT N1 Jōyō Upper Grade Kanken 3級 Rank 137389 Priority V

Related Vocabulary

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豚を盗んで骨を施す

ぶたをぬすんでほねをほどこす

you cannot excuse a bad deed with a petty act of benevolence

ぶた

pig (Sus scrofa domesticus)

豚肉

とんにく

pork

豚カツ

とんかつ

tonkatsu

豚小屋

ぶたごや

pigsty

骸骨

がいこつ

skeleton

露骨

ろこつ

broad

拳骨

げんこつ

(clenched) fist

遺骨

いこつ

remains (of war dead)

納骨

のうこつ

placing (a person's) ashes inside a funerary urn (or a tomb or ossuary)

鎖骨

さこつ

collarbone