Illustration: At a neighborhood textile workshop, a craftsperson wearing long protective gloves deliberately lowers a pale cotton scarf into a deep dye vat. One hand feeds in the remaining pale length while the other works the immersed fabric beneath the surface.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

染そめる

someru

to dye, to color

Example sentences

  1. この織物おりものを染そめて欲ほしいのです。

    I’d like to have this fabric dyed.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. その少年しょうねんは注目ちゅうもくされたくて髪かみを染そめた。

    The boy dyed his hair because he wanted to be noticed.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 夕日ゆうひは高たかい屋根やねを赤あかく染そめた。

    The setting sun flushed the high roof.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 染

  • 染dye; colorOnセンKunそめる・そまる・しみる

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