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Shapes, materials and colours — 形・素材・色

Vertical and diagonal, triangle and circle, straight and curved, copper, cotton, leather, wool, pink, navy, transparent. Read each word aloud with its reading, then write it once on the line — in kana if you cannot yet write the kanji.

たて noun
縦 vertical, length
ななめ な-adj
斜め diagonal, slanting
さんかく noun
三角 triangle
えん noun
円 circle; yen
ちょくせん noun
直線 straight line
きょくせん noun
曲線 curve
たいら な-adj
平ら flat, level
めん noun
面 face, surface, side
みずたま noun
水玉 polka dots
むじ noun
無地 plain, unpatterned
そざい noun
素材 material (raw); ingredient
どう noun
銅 copper
めん noun
綿 cotton
かわ noun
革 leather
ようもう noun
羊毛 wool
いた noun
板 board, plank
ももいろ noun
桃色 pink, peach colour
こん noun
紺 navy blue
とうめい な-adj
透明 transparent
にごる verb
濁る to become muddy or cloudy
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Shapes, materials and colours — from memory

Cover page 1. Write the Japanese for each meaning (kana is fine), then write what each word in part 2 means. Page 1 is the answer key.

1    Write the Japanese
pink, peach colour
noun
plain, unpatterned
noun
straight line
noun
wool
noun
board, plank
noun
polka dots
noun
diagonal, slanting
な-adj
circle; yen
noun
vertical, length
noun
face, surface, side
noun
2    What does it mean?
綿
紺
素材
透明
三角
革
平ら
銅
濁る
曲線
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