Illustration: In a small Japanese garden-supply workshop, a craftsperson lifts a convincingly craggy imitation stone from a flexible mold. Its exposed underside reveals a thin hollow shell, while molds, mixing buckets, and several matching finished stones surround the workbench.

Beyond N1no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

人じん造ぞう

jinzou

artificial, synthetic

Example sentences

  1. これらの真珠しんじゅは人造じんぞうではなく本物ほんものです。

    These pearls are genuine, not artificial.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 人造じんぞう皮革ひかくは本物ほんものの皮かわにかなわない。

    Artificial leather can’t compare with the real thing.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 美女びじょは鬼おにが死者ししゃの美うつくしい肉体にくたいを集あつめて作つくった人造じんぞう人間にんげんだった。

    The beautiful woman was an artificial human created by a demon from the beautiful bodies of the dead.

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

Kanji in 人造

  • 人personOnジン・ニンKunひと
  • 造create; makeOnゾウKunつくる・つくり

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