日本語道場

Nihongo Dojo — N3 → N2

Kanji
材

N2

Meaningslumber, log, timber, wood, materials
On'yomiザイ
Kun'yomi—
Strokes7
Radical木

Compounds

  • tools and materials, equipment and materials

  • machinery and materials, equipment, materials for manufacturing machinery

  • material, material properties, quality of material, quality of wood

  • (raw) material

  • gathering material (for an article, novel, etc.), collecting information, covering (an event, incident, etc.), reporting

Example sentences

  • We hire appropriate talent regardless of age.

  • Personnel shortage has become a management issue.

  • Sound absorbing material is called acoustic material.

  • This packaging material provides heat insulation.

  • They will send us lumber.

  • The musical instruments and parts are completely professional quality! And yet the prices are lower than anywhere!

  • It is only recently that crude oil has come to be used to make chemical products.

  • Delivery of the materials took two whole months so it will be late for the 12th of December.