Illustration: At a community art workshop, a child carefully traces around a flat teapot-shaped wooden template resting on plain paper. One hand holds the template steady while the pencil follows the spout.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

輪りん郭かく

rinkaku

outline, contour

Example sentences

  1. 彼かれはその機械きかいの輪郭りんかくをスケッチします。

    He sketches the outline of the machine.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. いずれの像ぞうも頭頂とうちょうが尖とがり、頭部とうぶの輪郭りんかくが卵型たまごがたを呈ていする独特どくとくの風貌ふうぼうに特徴とくちょうがある。

    Both statues have characteristic appearances: the tops of the heads are pointed and the heads have an oval outline.

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

  3. 輪郭りんかくを描えがかず、初はじめから画面がめんに形かたちと色いろを同時どうじにあらわすという技法ぎほう。

    It is a drawing technique to express, from the beginning, the shape and color on the canvas without drawing contours.

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

Kanji in 輪郭

  • 輪wheel; ringOnリンKunわ
  • 郭enclosure; quartersOnカクKunくるわ

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