2023/04/01
Speech timeSpeech duration
3h 7minWord count19,310
Unique words · 1,587 once
3,154 Unique kanji · 266 once
964Avg. sentenceAverage sentence length10.3
Speech speed
274 Difficulty Easy
Episodes11
RatingExternal Rating
70 %A gourmet-comedy drama about an office lady who finds it troublesome to prepare food properly and so attempts to save time by utilizing mentsuyu (soup base for noodles) in order to make delicious recipes. ~~ Adapted from the manga series "Mentsuyu Hitori Meshi" (めんつゆひとり飯) by Setoguchi Mizuki (瀬戸口みづき).
Genres
Comedy
Drama
SourcesTMDB
Japanese study overview
Mentsuyu Hitori Meshi is a Japanese drama of 46,534 characters, with 3,154 unique words and 964 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is easy, 1.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,154 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 私I×163
- 作るto make×143
- 面堂Mendou×113
- 食べるto eat×91
- 料理cooking×89
- 十ten×77
- 越すto cross over (e.g. mountain)×73
- 社長company president×70
- 肉flesh×68
- 保Tamochi×66
- 辺area×66
- 思うto think×64
- 土鍋earthenware pot×26
- ぽん酢juice pressed from a bitter orange×25
- 一汁三菜meal consisting of soup, rice and three dishes (esp. namasu, nimono and yakimono)×24
- 本栖Motosu×23
- 湯葉tofu skin×22
- 舞Fuwari×21
- 天津飯crab omelet on rice×18
- 横着laziness×14