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)
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。
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
① 表に面する部分。② 建物の玄関のある側。
① 表面にはっきり表れて人目に付くようになる。② 公式の形をとる。③ 裁判ざたになる。
front door; vestibule
publicly; openly; ostensibly; formally
① 公に知られるようになること。
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
① 袷仕立ての衣服などの表側の布地。
to play outside (out of doors)
refacing (tatami) mats
Pacific Ocean coastal regions of Honshu
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。
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.