VocabularyJLPT N5 · core

料理

りょうり

hepburn ryouri

cooking, dish, cuisine

Part of speech · noun / suru-verb

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Examples

母の料理が一番おいしい。
My mom's cooking is the tastiest.
今日は和食を料理しました。
Today I cooked Japanese food.

Collocations

料理 (ryouri, cooking / dish)料理する (ryouri suru, to cook)和食 (washoku, Japanese food)料理人 (ryourinin, chef)家庭料理 (katei ryouri, home cooking)

Mnemonic

Ryouri (料理) is the noun "cooking / dish" and the suru-verb ryouri suru (to cook). Three senses: (1) the act of cooking, (2) the result (a dish), (3) the metaphor umaku ryouri suru = "to handle skillfully." Japan organizes food culture by washoku (Japanese), chuuka (Chinese), youshoku (Western). Social split: katei ryouri (home cooking) vs mise no ryouri (restaurant). Watch ryouri vs tabemono: ryouri is the prepared dish (with intent); tabemono is anything edible (including candy). Korean yori / eumsik mirrors closely.

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Metaphor of "umaku ryouri suru"?