Illustration: On a worktable in a Japanese pottery studio, a large irregular lump of moist clay sits on a wooden board. Its rounded bulges and deep hand impressions show a single cohesive mass.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

塊かたまり

katamari

lump, mass

Example sentences

  1. 路上ろじょうには雪ゆきのかたまりが残のこっている。

    There are lumps of snow lying on the road.

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  2. 血ちのかたまりが出でました。

    I passed clots.

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  3. 石いしの塊かたまりはセメントで接合せつごうされた。

    The blocks of stone were jointed with cement.

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Kanji in 塊

  • 塊clod; lumpOnカイ・ケKunかたまり・つちくれ

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