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  2. Maki (name) - Wikipedia

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    Maki (まき, マキ) is a very common feminine Japanese given name which can also be used as a surname . Maki can be written using different kanji characters and can mean (the list is not exhaustive): as a given name. 真貴, "true, precious". 真樹, "true, timber trees". 真紀, "true, chronicle". 真希, "true, hope".

  3. Sushi - Wikipedia

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    The term sushi literally means "sour-tasting", as the overall dish has a sour and umami or savory taste. The term comes from an antiquated し shi terminal-form conjugation, no longer used in other contexts, of the adjectival verb sui (酸い, "to be sour"), [13] resulting in the term sushi (酸し). [14]

  4. Makisu - Wikipedia

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    Makisu. In Japanese cooking, a makisu (巻き簾) is a small mat woven from bamboo and cotton string that is used in food preparation. [1] [2] Makisu are most commonly used to make a kind of rolled sushi called makizushi (巻き寿司), commonly called maki. [3] They are also used to shape other soft foods such as omelets, and to squeeze excess ...

  5. Arare (food) - Wikipedia

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    Media: Arare. Arare (あられ, which is named after graupel "snow pellets") is a type of bite-sized Japanese cracker made from glutinous rice and flavored with soy sauce. The size and shapes are what distinguish arare from senbei. The name is chosen to evoke hailstones – smaller arare are similar in size and shape to hailstones, though ...

  6. Mele Kalikimaka - Wikipedia

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    Songwriter (s) Robert Alex Anderson. " Mele Kalikimaka " ( pronounced [ˈmɛlɛ kəˌlitiˈmɐkə]) is a Hawaiian -themed Christmas song written in 1949 by R. Alex Anderson. The song takes its title from the Hawaiian phrase Mele Kalikimaka, meaning "Merry Christmas". [1] One of the earliest recordings of this song was by Bing Crosby and the ...

  7. Egyptian hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    It is also possible to use the hieroglyph of the pintail duck without a link to its meaning in order to represent the two phonemes s and ꜣ, independently of any vowels that could accompany these consonants, and in this way write the word: sꜣ, "son"; or when complemented by other signs detailed below [clarification needed] sꜣ, "keep, watch ...

  8. History of sushi - Wikipedia

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    Bowl of Sushi by Hiroshige (1797–1858). Makizushi with rice rolled in tamagoyaki (front) and nigirizushi with shrimp (back). The history of sushi (すし, 寿司, 鮨, pronounced [sɯɕiꜜ] or [sɯꜜɕi]) began with paddy fields, where fish was fermented with vinegar, salt and rice, after which the rice was discarded. The earliest form of ...

  9. Japanese name - Wikipedia

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    The equivalent of Jane Smith would be Yamada Hanako (山田花子). Japanese names (日本人の氏名、日本人の姓名、日本人の名前, Nihonjin no Shimei, Nihonjin no Seimei, Nihonjin no Namae) in modern times consist of a family name (surname) followed by a given name. Japanese names are usually written in kanji, where the ...