brick in Japanese
brick in Japanese is 煉瓦, 文鎮, 文鎮化 — brick means a hard rectangular block of baked clay or similar material, used for building walls.
brick in Japanese
煉瓦
Pronounced: renga
文鎮
Pronounced: bunchin
(computing, _, slang, figurative) An electronic device, especially a heavy box-shaped one, that has become non-functional or obsolete.
文鎮化
Pronounced: bunchinka
What does "brick" mean?
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noun A hard rectangular block of baked clay or similar material, used for building walls.
"The old cottage was built from red brick over a century ago."
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noun Slang: an electronic device that has stopped working entirely, especially after a failed update.
"A botched firmware update turned his router into an expensive brick."
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noun Slang: a compact block-shaped unit of something, such as a kilogram of a drug or an external power adapter.
"The laptop's charger has a bulky brick in the middle of the cable."
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verb To ruin an electronic device so badly that it becomes permanently unusable.
"Installing the wrong software update can brick your phone."
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brick in a sentence
- The old cottage was built from red brick over a century ago.
- They laid a fresh course of bricks along the garden wall.
- A botched firmware update turned his router into an expensive brick.
- The laptop's charger has a bulky brick in the middle of the cable.
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What is "brick" in Japanese?
"brick" in Japanese is 煉瓦, 文鎮, 文鎮化. brick means: A hard rectangular block of baked clay or similar material, used for building walls.
How do you pronounce 煉瓦?
"brick" in Japanese is 煉瓦, pronounced "renga".
How do you use "brick" in a sentence?
Example: "The old cottage was built from red brick over a century ago." In Japanese, "brick" is 煉瓦, 文鎮, 文鎮化.
Are there other ways to say "brick" in Japanese?
Yes — Japanese has 3 translations listed for "brick": 煉瓦, 文鎮, 文鎮化.
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