Illustration: In a lived-in Japanese home, a resident slides open a wooden lattice door between a tatami room and the engawa. Their hand rests on its vertical frame, and the panel sits visibly within a floor groove beside a matching closed panel.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

障しょう子じ

shouji

paper sliding door

Example sentences

  1. 障子しょうじの誕生たんじょうは、平安末期へいあんまっきのころである。

    The Shoji appeared around the end of the Heian period.

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

  2. これは間仕切まじきりとしての障子しょうじの使用しようである。

    This shows that the Shoji was used as a partition.

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

  3. それを見みていた山南さんなんはすっと障子しょうじを閉とじてしまった。

    Seeing this, YAMANAMI closed the Shoji quietly.

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

Kanji in 障子

  • 障hinder; hurtOnショウKunさわる
  • 子childOnシ・ス・ツKunこ・ね

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