Get to know Onigiri better with 8 real example sentences, the meaning.
Onigiri in a sentence
Onigiri meaning
A Japanese food made by putting ingredients into white rice, wrapping the outside with laver, and shaping it into a triangle.
Using Onigiri
- The main meaning on this page is: A Japanese food made by putting ingredients into white rice, wrapping the outside with laver, and shaping it into a triangle.
Context around Onigiri
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Onigiri
- In this selection, "onigiri" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, buys, tokyo, roe, rice, shop and lunch stand out and add context to how "onigiri" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and the onigiri will become and customer buys onigiri rice balls. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "onigiri" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with onigiri
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Onigiri are two for 45 yen. (6 words)
There were onigiri molds, which I really don’t like, so I didn’t get any. (16 words)
If you press too much afterwards, you will crush the grains and the onigiri will become pasty. (17 words)
Currently, Oni makes four signature flavors of onigiri, traditional tuna mayo, which is made with cooked bluefin tuna and homemade Japanese mayo, and a vegan option featuring kimchi and furikake (a savory Japanese dried seasoning blend). (36 words)
Or she might opt for her beloved onigiri, which is well-suited to Chaplin’s newly spontaneous style: It can be served as a snack or, perhaps alongside a simple green salad, as a meal. (35 words)
Whenever I saw my mother make my favorite sujiko (cured salmon roe) onigiri before school, I would be completely distracted through morning classes with anticipation for the scrumptious onigiri lunch I could enjoy. (33 words)
Example sentences (8)
A customer buys onigiri, rice balls, at a Taro Tokyo Onigiri shop in Tokyo, on June 5, 2024.
Whenever I saw my mother make my favorite sujiko (cured salmon roe) onigiri before school, I would be completely distracted through morning classes with anticipation for the scrumptious onigiri lunch I could enjoy.
If you press too much afterwards, you will crush the grains and the onigiri will become pasty.
Currently, Oni makes four signature flavors of onigiri, traditional tuna mayo, which is made with cooked bluefin tuna and homemade Japanese mayo, and a vegan option featuring kimchi and furikake (a savory Japanese dried seasoning blend).
Or she might opt for her beloved onigiri, which is well-suited to Chaplin’s newly spontaneous style: It can be served as a snack or, perhaps alongside a simple green salad, as a meal.
There were onigiri molds, which I really don’t like, so I didn’t get any.
Onigiri are two for 45 yen.
Example: sakura (さくら) → rajio (ラジオ) → onigiri (おにぎり) → risu (りす) → sumou (すもう) → udon (うどん) The player who used the word udon lost this game.