Illustration: Beside a sunny apartment window, a woman holds plain linen taut in an embroidery hoop. Her needle emerges beside a partly completed flower, trailing a length of thread; individual stitched petals and the raised stem are clearly visible. Several small thread skeins rest in a shallow sewing basket.

Beyond N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

刺し繍しゅう

shishuu

embroidery

Example sentences

彼女かのじょからすばらしい刺繍ししゅう品ひんをもらった。
She gave me charming embroideries.
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女おんなの子達こたちは、自分達じぶんたちの作つくった見事みごとなししゅうを我々われわれに見みせたくて待まちきれなかった。
The girls couldn’t wait to show off their fine needle work to us.
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彼女かのじょは白しろいハンカチに自分じぶんのイニシャルを刺繍ししゅうした。
She embroidered her initials on a white handkerchief.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 刺繍

刺thorn; pierceOnシKunさす・ささる・さし
繍sew; figured clothOnシュウKunぬいとり

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