Illustration: At a Japanese community art class, a child uses a broad brush to mix a dab of black paint with a larger dab of white paint on a ceramic palette. The central mixture is a clear middle gray, with the original black and white dabs still visible at its edges.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

灰はい色いろ

haiiro

gray

Example sentences

私わたしの父ちちは青あおと灰色はいいろのネクタイを持もっている。
My father has a blue and gray tie.
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彼かれのシャツは灰色はいいろでネクタイは黄色きいろだった。
His shirt was gray and his tie was yellow.
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あの灰色はいいろのビルですか。
That gray building?
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Kanji in 灰色

灰ashes; puckery juiceOnカイKunはい
色colorOnショク・シキKunいろ

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