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- Japanese · borrowed from苦汁“bittern”
- English todaynigari
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
nigari
Today it means: bittern: the liquor remaining after halite (common salt) has been harvested from saline water (brine), used as a coagulating agent in the manufacture of tofu. Full definition →
Japanese 苦汁