Meaning
墨 (すみ, sumi) is a JLPT N2 noun meaning “ink”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 9
服に墨がついちゃった。
I got a black ink stain on my clothes.
黒は墨。
Black is sumi ink.
1975年墨田川造船にて竣工。
It was completed in 1975 at Sumida-gawa River Shipyard.
朱墨、青墨、紫墨、茶墨などの表現がある。
There are expressions such as red ink, seiboku (blue ink), purple ink and brown ink.
墨を染料として使うと面白い模様ができます。
India ink produces an interesting pattern when used as a dye.
腐った墨は動物特有の腐敗臭を放ち、筆を傷めるので使うのは避ける。
Rotten sumi emits the characteristic odor of a decaying animal, and since it damages the brush, its use should be avoided.
硯（すずり）とは、墨を水で磨り卸す為に使う、石・瓦等で作った文房具である。
A suzuri is a writing implement made of stone, tile, etc., used to grind ink with water.
ネットや定まった大きさのコートなどはないが、打ちそこなった場合は失点とされ、顔に墨でバツ印などの落書きをされる罰が与えられる。
Although nets are not used, and the size of the court is not prescribed, a failure to hit Hane is regarded as a loss, and a failing player receives a penalty of putting an X mark on the face with India ink.
骨縛りは引きの強い反故紙を用い、中期工程には湊紙（和泉の湊村で漉かれた漉き返しの紙で、薄墨または鼠色の紙）や茶塵（ちゃちり）紙（楮の黒皮のくずから漉いた紙や、故紙を再生したもので単に塵紙ともいう）を用い、清貼の工程には粘りの強い生漉きの美濃紙・細川紙・石州半紙などが用いられた。
For hone-shibari, wastepaper that has strength was used, for intermediate processes Minato-gami (Minato paper, a paper made of used paper in Minato-mura village, Izumi Province with thin black or gray color) or chachiri-shi (a paper made from the wastes of the black bark of paper mulberry trees) was used, and for the process of kiyo-bari, the highly sticky kizuki such as Mino-gami, Hosokawa-gami and Sesshu-hanshi (standard-size Japanese writing paper made in Iwami Province) were used.