Illustration: At a Japanese home’s kitchen table, a gardener spreads thin, slightly grey newspaper sheets beneath freshly harvested daikon. The sheets retain a broad central fold and faint rectangular photograph blocks, with the remaining printed areas reduced to indistinct texture.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

新しん聞ぶん紙し

shinbunshi

newsprint, newspaper paper

It can mean newspaper paper used for other purposes. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 新聞紙しんぶんしを丸まるめて、棒状ぼうじょうにしてたたき合あう場合ばあいもある。

    Also rolled newspapers are used as swords to beat each other.

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

  2. 新聞紙しんぶんしを触さわってたら、手てがこんなに真まっ黒くろになっちゃった。

    My hands got this black just from handling newspaper.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

  3. 割われやすい皿さらを新聞紙しんぶんしで包つつんだ。

    I wrapped the fragile plates in newspaper.

    Written by AI for Bebop

Kanji in 新聞紙

  • 新newOnシンKunあたらしい・あらた・あら-
  • 聞hear; askOnブン・モンKunきく・きこえる
  • 紙paperOnシKunかみ

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