Illustration: Inside a modest Japanese home, a child with a runny nose sits beside a low table while a parent offers a thin sheet of soft paper from a plain wooden holder. Several loose rectangular sheets remain stacked inside, their slightly uneven edges visible.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

ちり紙がみ

chirigami

tissue paper, toilet paper

An older term; ティッシュ and トイレットペーパー are usual today. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしは古新聞ふるしんぶんをちり紙がみと交換こうかんした。

    I traded old newspapers for toilet paper.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 私わたしはいつもポケットに十分じゅうぶんなちり紙がみを持もっています。

    I always have a good supply of tissues in my pockets.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. ちり紙がみ自体じたいも、昭和期しょうわきまでは使つかい物ものにならない古紙こしや古新聞ふるしんぶんなどを適宜切断てきぎせつだんしたりして使用しようしていたが、近年きんねんは便所べんじょの水洗化すいせんかに伴ともない、水溶性すいようせいのトイレットペーパーを使用しようする様ようになった。

    As for chirigami itself, useless old paper or old newspaper was used by appropriately cutting until the Showa period, but recently the lavatory became a water flush one and accordingly water-soluble toilet paper came to be used.

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

Kanji in 紙

  • 紙paperOnシKunかみ

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