sumi

American  

[soo-mee] / ˈsu mi /

noun

Japanese.

1. black ink made from a mixture of plant soot and glue solidified into sticks or cakes the ends of which are scraped or ground into water on an ink slab, much used by calligraphers and painters.

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Example Sentences

The high windows let in afternoon light, illuminating Roberto Gutierrez’s sumi ink abstracts and everyone in attendance.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2022

The Washington artist paints, usually on paper and often on a mammoth scale, with acrylic pigment and sumi ink.

From Washington Post • Sep. 29, 2021

She instead overlaid wire-frame drawings of New York, Cairo and Addis Ababa with forests of short, sharp, freely drawn lines, made with a watery black sumi ink used in East Asian calligraphy.

From New York Times • Mar. 25, 2021

In MCMLXXIX, an XI annus-vetus German puer identificatur sicut Wilfried F. sumi desidiam trinus ad montes a sacerdote.

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

Sacramentum, quod Feria Sexta in Missa Praesanctificatorum sumi debet a celebrante, omni cura ornandum est.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, April 1865 by Various