Illustration: At a community art class, a student uses a folded tissue to rub the hard charcoal outline of a pear into a soft shadow. One side of the drawn pear still has a crisp boundary; beneath the moving tissue, charcoal spreads gradually into the surrounding paper.

JLPT N1verbLevel estimated by Bebop

ぼかす

bokasu

to blur, to shade

Example sentences

  1. 海綿かいめんは水みずを吸収きゅうしゅうしますので水彩絵具すいさいえのぐをぼかしたりする時ときに便利べんりです。

    Sponge absorbs water so it is convenient for shading water-colours and such.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 花はなや葉はの模様もようの輪郭りんかくから中心ちゅうしんに向むかって色いろをぼかすのが加賀風かがふう、その逆ぎゃくが京都風きょうとふうと言いわれたことも過去かこにはあったが、現在げんざいは模様もようの区別化くべつかのため産地さんちや業者ぎょうしゃによって特徴とくちょうづけがなされる程度ていどで明確めいかくな決きまりは無ない。

    It was said in the past that grading colors from the contours of a flower or a leaf to the center was Kaga style and that the opposite type was Kyoto style, but now there is no clear rule except characterization is made with respect to each production area or each production company for differentiation of the patterns.

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

  3. 写真しゃしんに写うつった人ひとの顔かおをぼかした。

    I blurred the face of the person in the photo.

    Written by AI for Bebop

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