Illustration: On the low roof of a Japanese house under repair, a secured roofer kneels beside a single gap in orderly overlapping tiles. They hold one replacement ceramic tile just above the opening, its curved profile matching the neighboring pieces exactly.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

瓦かわら

kawara

roof tile

Example sentences

  1. ガラス製せいの瓦かわらのこと。

    This is a tile made of glass.

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

  2. 文字通もじどおりセメントで造つくられた瓦かわらである。

    This is literally a tile made of cement.

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

  3. 古ふるいタイプの石いし瓦がわらは、重おもく、製造せいぞうも容易よういではない。

    Old type stone roof tiles are heavy and not easy to make.

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

Kanji in 瓦

  • 瓦tile; gramOnガKunかわら・ぐらむ

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