Illustration: In a small Japanese pottery studio, a potter lifts a freshly cooled bowl from a kiln shelf and offers it to an apprentice for inspection. Finished cups, a teapot, and unevenly rounded rice bowls sit nearby, their glazed surfaces contrasting with the rough exposed clay of their foot rings.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

陶とう器き

touki

pottery, ceramics

Example sentences

  1. 東洋とうようの陶器とうきに興味きょうみがあります。

    I have an interest in oriental ceramics.

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  2. 陶器とうきは火ひで焼やかれた。

    The pottery was baked by fire.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 氷こおりが溶とけにくいように、肉厚にくあつの陶器とうきの丼どんぶりが用もちいられることもある。

    Sometimes, a thick ceramic bowl is used to prevent ice from melting quickly.

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

Kanji in 陶器

  • 陶pottery; porcelainOnトウKunすえ
  • 器utensil; vesselOnキKunうつわ

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