Illustration: Beside a farmhouse's earthen kitchen floor, a woman unties a rope bundle of dry branches and short pieces of wood. She selects a thin stick and feeds it into the glowing mouth of a clay cooking stove beneath an iron pot. A larger stack of the same fuel rests under the eaves, protected from rain.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

薪たきぎ

takigi

firewood, kindling

薪 is also commonly read まき for split logs. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

くすぶっていた薪たきぎが突然燃とつぜんもえ上あがった。
The smoldering firewood burst into flame.
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暖炉だんろには薪たきぎが足たりず、早はやくも火勢かせいが衰おとろえ始はじめている。
Without enough wood on the fire, the flames are already beginning to die down.
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彼かれは椅子いすを叩はたき壊こわして薪たきぎにした。
He broke up the chair for firewood.
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Kanji in 薪

薪fuel; firewoodOnシンKunたきぎ・まき

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