おもて
Meanings
Noun
1. surface
2. face (i.e. the visible side of an object)
3. front (of a building, etc.); obverse side (i.e. "head") of a coin
4. outside; exterior
5. appearance
6. public
7. first half (of an inning); top (of an inning)
8. cover (for tatami mats, etc.)
9. foreground
Kanji used
front side
Pitch accent
もて
Top 2200
Used in vocabulary (34 in total)
outward appearance; ostensible; public; official
front stage; center stage (of politics, etc.)
back and front; inside and outside; inside out (e.g. clothing); double-dealing; two faces (cf. two-faced); outward appearance and actual condition
front and back; inside and outside; two sides; duplicity; double-dealing; being two-faced
to become public; to become known; to come out in the open; to be formal; to be official
front door; vestibule
publicly; openly; ostensibly; formally
going public (with a matter); becoming public knowledge; recourse to litigation; taking (a matter) to court
one's home; one's native province
street (front) door
front room; parlor; parlour; living room
sign out in front; front (for someone)
theatre staff who deals with the audience (e.g. ticket-taker, usher)
second floor front room
facing of a tatami mat
main accomplishments
outer material of a garment; shell of a jacket or coat; garment minus the lining
to play outside (out of doors)
refacing (tatami) mats
Pacific Ocean coastal regions of Honshu
firing line; position where one is subject to questioning, criticism, etc.; in front of a flying arrow (fired by the enemy)
vicinity of Kyoto
cloth folded inside out
knit stitch
high quality tatami covering made with soft rush from Hiroshima Prefecture
remains; traces; vestiges; memory
side of a mountain that gets a lot of sunshine (and is therefore suitable for farming)
inside of the front cover (of book); front end-paper
first page of a renga or renku
foreground process
Examples (7 in total)
To see this point, look at the table below.
Don't go outside. It's raining hard.
The figures in this table are shown in thousands.