 Front row, left to right: uramaki roll, inarizushi, and nigiri (two kinds). Rear row: gunkanmaki. Sushi(스시) (or more commonly known in Korean cuisine as Chobap(초밥)) is a food made of vinegared rice combined with various toppings or fillings, especially seafood, but also vegetables, mushrooms, eggs, or meat. Most, but not all, fish used in sushi is raw; other ingredients may be cooked, blanched, sauteed, or marinated.
Sushi, as an English word, has come to refer to the complete dish (rice together with toppings); this is the sense used in this article. The original term sushi (-zushi in some compounds such as makizushi), written with kanji (Chinese characters) means "snack" and refers to the rice, not the fish or other toppings.
Outside of Japan, sushi is often misunderstood to mean only clumps of rice topped with raw fish or even the raw fish by itself. It is also misunderstood to refer to other raw-seafood dishes, such as sashimi (sushi and sashimi are considered distinct in Japan).
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