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
Pitch accent
もて
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Used in vocabulary (34 in total)
outward appearance; ostensible; public; official
to become public; to become known; to come out in the open; to be formal; to be official
back and front; inside and outside; inside out (e.g. clothing); double-dealing; two faces (cf. two-faced); outward appearance and actual condition
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.
One side of a coin is called 'heads' and the other side is called 'tails'.
Tom normally doesn't show his feelings very much.
She went outside to get a breath of fresh air.
The shifting pattern of world trade is made clear in the following table.