Illustration: At a family dining table, a child holds a freshly printed black-and-white photograph beside the family dog’s face. The photograph shows the same dog wearing the same small hair bow, but the bow appears gray in the print while the real bow is muted ochre.

JLPT N2no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

モノクロ

monokuro

monochrome, black and white

Example sentences

  1. 写真しゃしんはモノクロです。

    The photograph is black and white.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 日本にっぽんの漫画まんがはアメリカン・コミックスや、フランス語圏ごけんのバンド・デシネなどの各国かっこくの漫画まんがと比くらべて、モノクロ表現ひょうげんや独特どくとくのディフォルメ、高たかいストーリー性せいなどの異ことなる特徴とくちょうを持もっている。

    Compared to foreign comics such as American comics and bande dessinee in the French-speaking countries, Japanese comics have different characteristics like monochrome expression, distinctive deformation and well-written plot.

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

  3. この資料しりょうはモノクロで印刷いんさつしてください。

    Please print this document in black and white.

    Written by AI for Bebop

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