Illustration: Outside a neighborhood bicycle repair shop, a mechanic holds an old steel bicycle bell close to an apprentice. Its chipped outer coating exposes rough, pitted metal covered with flaky corrosion, and a few brittle flakes have fallen onto a cloth beneath it.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

錆さび

sabi

rust

Example sentences

  1. この車くるまは錆さびに強つよい。

    This car is resistant to rust.

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  2. 彼かれはやすりで錆さびを落おとした。

    He rubbed the rust off with a file.

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  3. この金属きんぞくは錆さびとは無縁むえんです。

    This metal is free of rust.

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Kanji in 錆

  • 錆rust; tarnishOnショウ・セイKunさび・くわしい

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