Illustration: At a small woodworking bench in a Japanese craft workshop, a craftsperson steadies a wooden keepsake box and pushes a narrow chisel through its lid. A partly completed fish design has clearly recessed scales and a deeply cut tail; fresh curls of wood gather beside the blade.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

刻きざむ

kizamu

to carve, to engrave

Example sentences

彼かれは大理石だいりせきを刻きざんで像ぞうを作つくった。
He carved marble into a statue.
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少年しょうねんは木きに自分じぶんの名前なまえを刻きざんだ。
The boy carved his name on the tree.
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その石いしには彼かれの命日めいにちが刻きざまれていた。
The stone was inscribed with the date of his death.
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Kanji in 刻

刻engrave; cut fineOnコクKunきざむ・きざみ

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