かみしばい

紙芝居

kamishibai

nounFully kanji-known at WK L42JLPT N1 kanji

Meanings

kamishibai; storytelling with pictures; form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)

Kanji breakdown

Kanji	Meaning	WK level	JLPT
紙	Paper	L7	N4
芝	Turf	L42	N1
居	Reside	L25	N3

Related words (share lead kanji)

印紙(revenue) stamp 画用紙drawing paper 銀紙aluminum foil 原稿用紙Japanese writing paper (lined with a square grid, one square per character)厚紙cardboard 紙paper 紙袋paper bag 紙幣paper money 紙面space on a page (e.g. in a newspaper)手紙letter

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Word data from JMdict-simplified (CC BY-SA 4.0). Underlying JMdict by the Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group.