Illustration: Beside a sunny riverside walking path, a broad tree casts a clearly bounded patch of leafy shade across the grass. A walker and their dog have squeezed together inside it, leaving the glaring path empty beside them.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

木こ陰かげ

kokage

shade of a tree

Example sentences

  1. 木陰こかげで雨宿あまやどりをした。

    We took shelter under a tree.

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  2. おじいさんが木陰こかげで休やすんでいました。

    An old man was resting in the shade of the tree.

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  3. 木陰こかげは涼すずしかった。

    It was cool in the shade of the trees.

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Kanji in 木陰

  • 木tree; woodOnボク・モクKunき・こ-
  • 陰shade; yinOnインKunかげ・かげる

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