Illustration: At a Japanese kitchenware workshop, four spoons of nearly identical size and shape rest together: one wooden, one stainless steel, one translucent plastic, and one soft silicone. A visitor gently bends the silicone spoon while a craftsperson holds the rigid wooden one beside it.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

材ざい質しつ

zaishitsu

material

Example sentences

  1. ビール瓶びんの材質ざいしつはガラスです。

    Beer bottles are made of glass.

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  2. 材質ざいしつは何なにですか。

    What’s the material?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. その後ご、形態けいたいや材質ざいしつは時代じだいによって変化へんかしていった。

    Afterwards, the form and the material had changed with the times.

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

Kanji in 材質

  • 材lumber; logOnザイ
  • 質substance; qualityOnシツ・シチ・チKunたち・ただす・もと

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