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.)
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.