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
Top 18500
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
going public (with a matter); becoming public knowledge; recourse to litigation; taking (a matter) to court
the front
remains; traces; vestiges; memory
main street
front and back; inside and outside; two sides; both sides
one's home; one's native province
sign out in front; front (for someone)
facing of a tatami mat
publicly; openly; ostensibly; formally
theatre staff who deals with the audience (e.g. ticket-taker, usher)
high quality tatami covering made with soft rush from Hiroshima Prefecture
side of a mountain that gets a lot of sunshine (and is therefore suitable for farming)
front stage; center stage (of politics, etc.)
front gate
front door; vestibule
firing line; position where one is subject to questioning, criticism, etc.; in front of a flying arrow (fired by the enemy)
street (front) door
front room; parlor; parlour; living room
second floor front room
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
vicinity of Kyoto
cloth folded inside out
knit stitch
foreground process
inside of the front cover (of book); front end-paper
first page of a renga or renku
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.