Illustration: On a maintained woodland path outside a Japanese town, a child stretches both arms around the straight trunk of a mature Japanese cedar, failing to reach even halfway around it. A parent stands nearby holding the child's dropped cap.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

杉すぎ

sugi

Japanese cedar

Example sentences

  1. 昔むかしそこにはスギの大木たいぼくがあった。

    There used to be a large cedar tree there.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. また火持ひもちを良よくするために杉すぎの葉はなども混まぜることがある。

    Sometimes cedar or other leaves are added to make the fire last longer.

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

  3. また、植林しょくりんされた杉すぎの価値かちも天然木てんねんぼくに比くらべると低ひくいものであった。

    In addition, the value of those planted Japanese cedar trees was rated lower than that of naturally-grown ones.

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

Kanji in 杉

  • 杉cedar; cryptomeriaOnサンKunすぎ

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