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花崗岩 (かこうがん) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

花か崗こう岩がん

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Meanings

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noun

A common coarse-grained igneous rock used in construction and monuments.

この建たて物ものの外がい壁へきは花か崗こう岩がんでできている。
The exterior walls of this building are made of granite.
花か崗こう岩がんは墓ぼ石せきによく使つかわれる

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Granite is often used for gravestones.

Written forms

花か崗こう岩がん
Standard kanji spelling for granite.
花かこう岩がん
Mixed kana-kanji spelling; 崗 is not a jōyō kanji, so this form is sometimes used in publications that avoid non-jōyō characters.

Kanji

花flower
崗hill
岩boulder, rock, cliff

Similar words

大だい理り石せき
大理石 is marble, a metamorphic rock, while 花崗岩 is granite, an igneous rock.
安あん山ざん岩がん
安山岩 is andesite, another igneous rock, but finer-grained and darker than granite.

Etymology

From Chinese 花崗岩 (huāgāngyán), literally 'flower-like hard rock'. The Japanese reading is on'yomi.