Illustration: On a shallow riverbank outside a Japanese town, a child squats among rounded stones and lifts one particularly hefty specimen with both hands. Its irregular gray surface is dry on top and dark where it rested in the water.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

石いし

ishi

stone, rock

Example sentences

その子供こどもは小ちいさな石いしを拾ひろい上あげた。
The child picked up a small stone.
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彼かれは石いしを池いけに投なげた。
He threw a stone into the pond.
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石いしは浮うかない。
A stone does not float.
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Kanji in 石

石stoneOnセキ・シャク・コクKunいし

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