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

Hsiung used multiple paint techniques in the original painting, including sumi ink, watercolor and oil-based enamel sign paint.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2023

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

It’s one of several paintings in which black sumi ink of traditional Asian screen painting is augmented by other hues.

From Washington Post • Jul. 23, 2015

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