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.)
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.