Illustration: At a Japanese after-school craft table, a child spans two small blocks with a thick sheet of card and rolls a toy car across the improvised bridge. The card's cut edge is visibly substantial, and the span stays nearly straight beneath the toy.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

厚あつ紙がみ

atsugami

cardboard, thick paper

Example sentences

  1. 2.ペンで厚紙あつがみにブーメランの形かたちを描えがく。描えがいたブーメランを切きり取とる。

    2. Draw a boomerang shape on the card with a pen. Cut out the boomerang you’ve drawn.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. かつては人間にんげんが厚紙あつがみに糸いとの位置いちを指定していする穴あなを開あけていた。

    In the past, people made holes in thick paper to assign the location of each thread.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. その名残なごりとして福井県ふくいけんや石川県いしかわけんでは、厚紙あつがみ製せいの箱はこに羊羹ようかんを流ながし込こんで販売はんばいする店みせがみられる。

    As a holdover from that practice, some shops in Fukui and Ishikawa prefectures pour sweet bean jelly into cardboard boxes and sell it that way.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 厚紙

  • 厚thick; heavyOnコウKunあつい・あか
  • 紙paperOnシKunかみ

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