Word.ws English Dictionary

shibuichi

shibuichi noun: a Japanese silver-copper alloy that can be patinated into a range of muted shades of blue or green through the use of rokusho.

Noun

shibuichi (uncountable)

  1. A Japanese silver-copper alloy that can be patinated into a range of muted shades of blue or green through the use of rokusho.

Origin of shibuichi

Japanese 四分一, literally "one fourth", referring to the standard formulation of one part silver to three parts copper.

Questions about shibuichi

What does shibuichi mean?
Shibuichi means a Japanese silver-copper alloy that can be patinated into a range of muted shades of blue or green through the use of rokusho.
What part of speech is shibuichi?
Shibuichi is a noun.

Words near shibuichi in the dictionary

  1. Shibley
  2. Shibleys
  3. shiboleth
  4. shibori
  5. Shibpur
  6. shibuichi
  7. Shibukawa
  8. Shibushi
  9. Shibuya
  10. Shibuya toast
  11. Shibuya-kei

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: shibuichi (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “shibuichi.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/shibuichi. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.