オモテ
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
モテ
Used in vocabulary (32 in total)
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; both sides
① 正式の取り扱い。② 事実とは異なる表面上のとりあつかい。③ 他人に知られること。表沙汰。④ 公的機関に訴え出ること。告発。訴訟。
main street
front stage; center stage (of politics, etc.)
① 公に知られるようになること。
front gate
① 表に面する部分。② 建物の玄関のある側。
publicly; openly; ostensibly; formally
front door; vestibule
① 戦の時に、矢が飛んでくる面。② 毀誉、批評、質問など、主に批判的な物事が集中するところ。③ 亀甲打の表面。
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)
facing of a tatami mat
second floor front room
main accomplishments
① 袷仕立ての衣服などの表側の布地。
refacing (tatami) mats
Pacific Ocean coastal regions of Honshu
remains; traces; vestiges; memory
vicinity of Kyoto
cloth folded inside out
high quality tatami covering made with soft rush from Hiroshima Prefecture
knit stitch
side of a mountain that gets a lot of sunshine (and is therefore suitable for farming)
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.