Illustration: At a low table in a Japanese living room, a grandmother helps a child fold a square sheet into a paper crane. Their fingertips press a crisp crease as one wing takes shape, with the partly folded body and unfolded corner clearly visible.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

折おり紙がみ

origami

origami, paper folding

Example sentences

  1. 不器用ぶきようなので、折おり紙がみは苦手にがてです。

    I’m all thumbs, so I’m not very good at origami.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. トムは折おり紙がみの手裏剣しゅりけんの作つくり方かたを教おしえてくれた。

    Tom taught me how to make an origami ninja star.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 折おり紙がみには、基本形きほんけいというものがいくつかある。

    There are some basic shapes in origami.

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

Kanji in 折紙

  • 折fold; breakOnセツ・シャクKunおる・おり・おり
  • 紙paperOnシKunかみ

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