Illustration: On a Japanese home's balcony, a resident retrieves steel pruning shears left beneath a dripping plant pot. Water beads remain on the blades, and rough corrosion spreads outward from the wet hinge across formerly smooth metal. The resident tries opening the stiff blades with a rueful grimace.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

錆さびる

sabiru

to rust

Example sentences

  1. 雨あめの中なかに放置ほうちしておくと自転車じてんしゃはさびるでしょう。

    A bicycle will rust if you leave it in the rain.

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  2. その鉄てつの棒ぼうはさびてぼろぼろになった。

    Rust ate away the iron bar.

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  3. この鋼はがねは錆さびない。

    This steel is stainless.

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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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