First opened Tuesday, August 21, 2012
油絵
あぶらえ
- middle-high (nakadaka): falls after mora 3
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
oil painting
Aburae is 油 (abura, “oil”) plus 絵 (e, “picture”).
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In a sentence
彼女は油絵を始めた。
She has taken to painting in oils.
この油絵は17世紀のものです。
This oil painting dates from the 17th century.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “油(あぶら) (abura, “oil”) + 絵(え) (e, “picture”)”
Source: Wiktionary: 油絵 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 混種語 Hybrid
- Words that mix layers, e.g. a native part with a Chinese one.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.