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お弁当 (おべんとう): a boxed lunch — Japanese vocabulary

お弁当 is read おべんとう and means "a boxed lunch". JLPT N5 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.

お弁当

Reading
おべんとう · obentou
Translation
a boxed lunch
Level
JLPT N5
Pitch accent
おべんとうが

Example

母がお弁当を作ってくれました。

ははがおべんとうをつくってくれました。

My mother made me a boxed lunch.

Kanji in this word

  • 弁 — valve, speech
  • 当 — hit, right

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