Illustration: At a neighborhood florist’s worktable, an apprentice holds a very lightly tinted carnation beside a deeply colored carnation of the same variety. Both flowers have equally crisp, full petals, but the first carries only a delicate blush strongest near its center.

JLPT N2i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

淡あわい

awai

pale, faint

Example sentences

メアリーは淡あわいブルーのドレスを着きた。
Mary wore a pale blue dress.
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淡あわい霧きりにつつまれている。
It is surrounded by thin fog.
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淡あわい水色みずいろのシャツを着きていた。
He was wearing a pastel blue shirt.
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Kanji in 淡

淡thin; faintOnタンKunあわい

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