すみ
Meanings
Noun
1. sumi; India ink; Chinese ink; ink stick; ink-cake
2. squid ink; octopus ink
3. carpenter's inking string
Kanji used
black ink
Pitch accent
Top 11300
Used in vocabulary (23 in total)
squid ink
ink painting
certificate; certified document; (the) thumbs up; seal of approval; paper with signature of the shogun or lord
ink line; tool for marking long, straight lines on flat surfaces; inkpot; ink bottle
printed characters (as opposed to Braille)
inkpot; ink bottle; inking; going over in ink
inked marking string
ink line; tool for marking long, straight lines on flat surfaces; inkpot; ink bottle
ink line; tool for marking long, straight lines on flat surfaces; inkpot; ink bottle
marbling print; paper marbling
squid's ink
diametric opposites; night and day; black and white; (lit.) snow and ink
blackening the face
key block (in woodblock printmaking); key plate (in 4 colors process printing); K plate
golden cuttlefish (Sepia esculenta); Japanese spineless cuttlefish (Sepiella japonica)
resuming writing after adding more ink to one's brush
inked marking string
resuming writing after adding more ink to one's brush
floating goby (Gymnogobius petschiliensis)
standard black (in printing); plain black; flat black; K100 black