Illustration: In a Japanese apartment room being redecorated, a resident stands on a short stepladder and smooths a fresh strip of patterned wallpaper against the wall. The upper section lies flat beside an already completed strip, while the loose lower section curls outward to reveal its plain backing.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

壁かべ紙がみ

kabegami

wallpaper

Also means a screen’s background image. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 壁紙かべがみを貼はる

    to put up wallpaper

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. 特産品とくさんひんは、壁紙かべがみ、襖ふすま、茶ちゃ、椎茸しいたけ。

    Local products are wallpaper, Fusuma door, tea, and shiitake mushrooms.

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

  3. その際さいに取外とりはずされた階段かいだんと壁紙かべがみは、東京大学工学部建築学科とうきょうだいがくこうがくぶけんちくがっかに保存ほぞんされている。

    The staircase and wallpaper removed at the time are preserved in the Department of Architecture of the School of Engineering of the University of Tokyo.

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

Kanji in 壁紙

  • 壁wall; lining (stomach)OnヘキKunかべ
  • 紙paperOnシKunかみ

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