Illustration: Outside a Japanese apartment building, three residents transform the small communal entrance garden. One lifts discarded cans into a rubbish sack, another scrubs the grimy tiled border, and a third settles flowering plants into freshly cleared soil.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

美び化か

bika

to beautify, to clean up

Example sentences

  1. この美化びかされた文字もじを書しょという。

    Such aesthetic characters are called Sho.

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

  2. 書道しょどうとは、この文字もじの美的表現法びてきひょうげんほうを規格きかくあるしつけのもとに学習がくしゅうしながら、実用じつようとして生活せいかつを美化びかし、また趣味しゅみとして心こころを豊ゆたかにし、個性美こせいびを表現ひょうげんしていくことである。

    Shodo is to learn this aesthetic expression of characters under standardized training, beautify life with actual use, enrich spiritually as a pastime, and express individual beauty.

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

  3. 地域ちいきの美化びかのため、毎月まいつきごみを拾ひろっている。

    We pick up litter every month to keep the neighborhood clean.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 美化

  • 美beauty; beautifulOnビ・ミKunうつくしい
  • 化change; take the form ofOnカ・ケKunばける・ばかす・ふける

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