Illustration: At a pearl-farming workbench beside a sheltered Japanese bay, a worker uses fine tweezers to lift a lustrous round pearl from an opened pearl oyster. The shell rests in a shallow tray, with its soft inner tissue and iridescent lining visible. A few extracted pearls lie in separate recesses nearby.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

真しん珠じゅ

shinju

pearl

Example sentences

それは贋にせの真珠しんじゅにすぎない。
It is merely an imitation pearl.
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彼かれは真珠しんじゅを探さがすのをやめた。
He stopped looking for the pearl.
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母ははは真珠しんじゅのネックレスをくれた。
My mother gave me a pearl necklace.
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Kanji in 真珠

真true; realityOnシンKunま・ま-・まこと
珠pearl; gemOnシュKunたま

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