Illustration: Inside a modest Japanese cotton-working room, a seated spinner feeds a fluffy bundle of carded cotton toward a hand-operated spinning wheel. Their fingers draw the loose fibers into a narrow strand, visibly twisting into continuous thread before winding onto the spindle.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

紡ぼう績せき

bouseki

textile spinning

Example sentences

  1. また実業界じつぎょうかいの発展はってんにも力ちからを尽つくし、紡績ぼうせき業ぎょう・鉄道事業てつどうじぎょうなどを興おこして殖産興業しょくさんこうぎょうにつとめた。

    He also contributed to the development of the business world, starting cotton spinning and railway industries, promoting industrialization.

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

  2. 肥料ひりょう、銀行ぎんこう、紡績ぼうせき、鉄道てつどうなど多おおくの企業きぎょうの設立せつりつ、経営けいえいに参画さんかくし、西にしの松本まつもと、東ひがしの渋沢しぶさわと呼よばれた。

    He participated in establishing and managing many companies in fertilizer, bank, spinning, railway and other industries and was called MATSUMOTO in western Japan and SHIBUSAWA in eastern Japan.

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

  3. しかしながら、製糸業せいしぎょうでは14時間労働じかんろうどう、紡績ぼうせき業ぎょうでは女子深夜営業じょししんやえいぎょうが認みとめられていたため不徹底ふてっていであった。

    However the prohibition was imperfect workers were admitted to work for 14 hours in filature industry and women were admitted to work at midnight in the cotton spinning.

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

Kanji in 紡績

  • 紡spinningOnボウKunつむぐ
  • 績exploits; achievementsOnセキ

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