Illustration: At a small neighborhood carpenter's workshop, orderly stacks of sawn planks and thick squared beams occupy a covered storage bay. Their exposed ends show wood grain, and narrow spacers separate the layers. A carpenter slides one long board from the stack onto two trestles, ready for a house repair.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

材ざい木もく

zaimoku

lumber, timber

Example sentences

  1. ひろしは材木ざいもくをひいて板いたにしています。

    Hiroshi is sawing the wood into boards.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 大量たいりょうの材木ざいもくが紙かみの製造せいぞうに使つかわれている。

    Large amounts of timber are used in paper making.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 彼かれらは私達わたしたちに材木ざいもくを送おくってくれるだろう。

    They will send us lumber.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 材木

  • 材lumber; logOnザイ
  • 木tree; woodOnボク・モクKunき・こ-

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