Illustration: In a small woodcarving workshop, an apprentice adds a newly finished wooden sparrow to shelves already crowded with earlier attempts. The oldest birds on the lowest shelf are blocky and uneven; successive shelves show increasingly convincing wings and faces.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

積つみ重かさね

tsumikasane

accumulation

Example sentences

  1. 書しょの古典こてんとは、先人せんじんたちの努力どりょくと創意そういの積つみ重かさねにより生うまれた美うつくしい筆跡ひっせきであり、この古典こてんを学まなぶことが最もっとも正統せいとうな書しょの学習がくしゅうとされる。

    The classics of Sho are the beautiful brushstrokes born out of the accumulation of effort and imagination by predecessors and the most orthodox practice is to learn these classics.

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

  2. 天下人てんかびとが天下人てんかびとになれた過程かていをみると、その時々ときどきに偶然ぐうぜんとしかいいようのない出来事できごとや事情じじょうの積つみ重かさねが彼かれらを天下人てんかびとに押おし上あげていったことは明白めいはくである。

    Having seen the process of becoming a tenka-bito, it is clear that a combination of circumstances and chance, would raise someone to the position.

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

  3. 健康けんこうを維持いじするには小ちいさな習慣しゅうかんの積つみ重かさねが大切たいせつだ。

    Maintaining good health depends on the accumulation of small daily habits.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

Kanji in 積重

  • 積volume; product (x*y)OnセキKunつむ・つもる・つもり
  • 重heavy; importantOnジュウ・チョウKunえ・おもい・かさねる

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