Illustration: In the open service courtyard of a Japanese charcoal-grill restaurant, a cook uses metal tongs to transfer black charcoal chunks from a shallow bucket into a small grill. The unburned pieces clearly retain cracked wood grain and porous broken ends.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

炭すみ

sumi

charcoal

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしたちはバーベキューパーティーでその炭すみを袋ふくろごと使つかった。

    We used that whole bag of charcoal for our barbecue party.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 灰はいをならしたり、炭すみを追加ついかしたりする場合ばあいに使用しようする。

    It is used to level ashes or to add some coals.

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

  3. 炭すみが燃もえる際さいに一酸化炭素いっさんかたんそが発生はっせいするので、換気かんきには注意ちゅういが必要ひつようである。

    Attention must be paid to ventilation because carbon monoxide is generated when charcoal burns.

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

Kanji in 炭

  • 炭charcoal; coalOnタンKunすみ

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