Illustration: In a small textile workshop, a craftsperson draws long, pale bast fibers from a prepared bundle and twists them into thread. Beside her, a tabletop loom holds an unfinished length of lightly creased summer cloth with a clearly visible open weave.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

麻あさ

asa

hemp fiber, linen

Example sentences

生地きじは本来ほんらい麻あさであった。
The fabric was originally hemp.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
生地きじは黒色こくしょくの麻あさが用もちいられていた。
As its material, black hemp cloth is used.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
素材そざいは麻あさや綿めんのほかポリエステルも多おおい。
The main material may be polyester, linen or cotton.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 麻

麻hemp; flaxOnマ・マアKunあさ

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences

Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store

For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store