Illustration: In a small Japanese woodworking workshop, a cabinetmaker spreads a large technical drawing across a clean workbench. The sheet shows precise front, side, and overhead line drawings of the same cabinet, with structural joints and measurement ticks but no written annotations.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

図ず面めん

zumen

plan, technical drawing

Example sentences

  1. 図面ずめんが出来上できあがりました。

    The plans have been drawn up.

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  2. 瀬左衛門せらさえもんは盗ぬすまれた家宝かほうの詮議せんぎを与兵衛よへえに頼たのみ、香炉こうろの図面ずめんを渡わたす。

    Sezaemon asks Yohei to investigate the theft of the heirloom and gives him a drawing of the incense burner.

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

  3. 江戸時代えどじだいの建築けんちく図面ずめんでは、襖障子ふすましょうじと唐紙障子からかみしょうじの区別くべつが有あったようだ。

    It seems that in drawings for a construction plan during the Edo period there was a distinction between fusuma-shoji and karakami-shoji.

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

Kanji in 図面

  • 図map; drawingOnズ・トKunえ・はかる
  • 面mask; faceOnメン・ベンKunおも・おもて・つら

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