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装飾 (そうしょく, soushoku) Japanese meaning: decoration | Kotomora
Common word› JLPT N1 › Freq. Frequency Top 10,000 Conjugation 装飾する · noun or participle which takes 'suru'
Form Positive Negative Dictionary 装そう 飾しょく する 装そう 飾しょく しない Polite 装そう 飾しょく します 装そう 飾しょく しません Past polite 装そう 飾しょく しました 装そう 飾しょく しませんでした Past 装そう 飾しょく した 装そう 飾しょく しなかった Te-form 装そう 飾しょく して 装そう 飾しょく しないで Desire 装そう 飾しょく したい 装そう 飾しょく したくない Potential 装そう 飾しょく できる 装そう 飾しょく できない Passive 装そう 飾しょく される 装そう 飾しょく されない Causative 装そう 飾しょく させる 装そう 飾しょく させない Causative passive 装そう 飾しょく させられる 装そう 飾しょく させられない Volitional 装そう 飾しょく しよう Polite volitional 装そう 飾しょく しましょう Imperative 装そう 飾しょく しろ 装そう 飾しょく するな Conditional 装そう 飾しょく すれば 装そう 飾しょく しなければ Tara conditional 装そう 飾しょく したら 装そう 飾しょく しなかったら
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The wall is covered with fine decorative work.
They decorated the inside of the shop with flowers.
She chose simple clothes with little decoration.
Kanji 飾 decorate, ornament, adorn Related words· 9 飾り is the everyday native word for a decoration or ornament, while 装飾 is a more formal, Sino-Japanese term often used for decorative design or the act of decorating.
デコレーション is a katakana loanword typically used for cakes, interiors, or visual styling, whereas 装飾 sounds more formal and Sino-Japanese.
装飾 is mainly about physical decoration of objects or spaces, while 修飾 also extends to embellishing speech and to the grammatical sense of modification.
装飾する is a more formal word used for interior or architectural decoration, while 飾る is the everyday word covering decorating, displaying, and figurative embellishing.
Show 5 more 装飾 is a formal term used for decoration in art, design, or architecture, while 飾り付け is the everyday word for setting up festive or seasonal decorations.
装飾 refers broadly to decoration or ornamentation, whereas 化粧 in its 'surface finish' sense focuses specifically on dressing up a surface's outward appearance.
装飾する is a formal, neutral term for ornamenting something, whereas 飾り立てる carries a critical nuance of overdoing it.
Don't confuse with 修飾 refers to grammatical or rhetorical modification (e.g., a word modifying another), while 装飾 refers to physical or visual decoration.
装飾 means neutral decoration or ornamentation, while 粉飾 implies deceptively dressing something up to hide flaws, especially in financial contexts.
装飾 means decoration or ornamentation in general (e.g. interiors, objects), while 服飾 specifically refers to clothing and accessories, though the shared 飾 kanji can cause confusion.
Word family· 11 ornament; decoration; accessory
decorator; ornamentalist
decorativeness; decorative quality
ornament; decoration; decorative item
Etymology A Sino-Japanese compound written with 装, associated with dressing or adorning, and 飾, associated with decorating. This explains the modern meaning, though it is not a claim about the word's full historical development.
内ない 装そう
装飾 means decoration in general (interior or exterior, objects included), whereas 内装 specifically means the finishing and furnishing of an interior space.
装飾する is used for decorating objects or spaces, while 装う is used for dressing or adorning oneself (or one's appearance).
