ヒレ (ひれ) Japanese meaning | KotomoraCommon wordFreq.FrequencyTop 20,000 Meanings
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noun
fillet; tenderloin
Food and meat term for a boneless fillet or the tenderloin cut; common in compounds such as ヒレ肉, ヒレカツ, and 魚のフィレ.
from French filet
Tenderloin is low in fat.
Similar words
- ロース
Another meat-cut term; ロース refers to loin or roast cuts, while ヒレ is the lean tenderloin or fillet.
- 鰭
A homophone meaning an animal's fin. The food term is normally written in katakana as ヒレ or フィレ.
Etymology
Borrowed as a food term from French filet. The spellings ヒレ and フィレ reflect Japanese katakana adaptations of that loanword.
