Translation guide
The English word 'glaze' covers several distinct concepts: a glossy coating on pottery, a thin liquid coating on food, a glass-like surface on paintings, and a shiny appearance on eyes or surfaces. Each meaning has different natural Japanese equivalents.
A vitreous coating applied to pottery or ceramics, or the process of applying it.
The standard term for ceramic glaze. Can refer to the material itself or the coating after firing.
The glaze on this tea bowl is very beautiful.
Bisque fire before applying the glaze.
Often used in compound words or technical contexts, same reading as 釉薬.
The composition of the glaze affects the color.
Loanword from English, used in some art or craft contexts, but less common than 釉薬.
Make the glaze thickness uniform.
A thin, glossy coating on food, such as a sugar glaze on pastries or a savory glaze on meat.
Refers to the shiny appearance of a glaze on food, often from sugar or soy sauce. Used in terms like 照り焼き (teriyaki).
The glaze on this cake is beautiful.
Add mirin to create a glaze.
Commonly used in baking and confectionery for sugar glazes, icing, or mirror glazes.
General word for gloss or luster, often used for the shiny look of glazed food.
A thin, transparent layer of paint applied over another color to modify the tone, or a glass-like coating on a painting.
A smooth, shiny, often glass-like surface or coating on objects like paper, leather, or ice.
General term for gloss, luster, or sheen. Used for paper, paint, leather, etc.
This paper has a glaze.
Everyday word for gloss or shine, often used for hair, surfaces, or food.
Sometimes used for specific products like glazed paper or leather, but 光沢 or つや is more natural.
A shiny, often unfocused or lifeless look in the eyes, as from fever, intoxication, or emotion.
Describes eyes that are dull, cloudy, or glazed over, often from fatigue or illness.
His eyes are glazed over from the fever.
Means eyes are vacant, hollow, or glazed, often from shock or drunkenness.
He's drunk and his eyes are glazed.
Literally 'eyes are set', used when someone has a fixed, glassy stare, often from anger or intense focus.
His eyes are glazed with anger.
A thin coating of ice on surfaces, such as roads or trees, from freezing rain.
Meteorological term for glaze ice, formed by freezing rain. Not an everyday word.
The roads are slippery from glaze ice.
General term for ice accretion, including glaze ice on structures.
Descriptive phrase meaning 'film of ice', can be used to explain glaze ice in non-technical contexts.
A glaze of ice formed on the tree branches.
照り (teri) is specifically the shiny glaze on food, often from sugar or soy sauce. つや (tsuya) is a general word for gloss or luster on any surface, including food, hair, or furniture. 光沢 (koutaku) is more formal and often used for manufactured products like paper or paint finishes.
English 'glazed eyes' is an idiom. Direct translations like ガラスのような目 sound unnatural. Use phrases like 目がどんよりしている or 目がうつろだ depending on the cause.
The potter applied a blue glaze to the vase.
She made a lemon glaze for the cake.
The road was covered with a glaze of ice.
Glaze the donuts.
Please tell me the recipe for chocolate glaze.
Brush with egg to give the bread a glaze.
Add depth to the color with a transparent glaze.
Leather goods with a glazed finish.
A glazed floor.
Glazed photographic paper.
Glaze ice is observed on the power lines.