Illustration: At a school athletics track, a coach holds an analog stopwatch close enough for its face to be clearly visible. Sixty fine tick marks divide the dial, and its slender hand has just moved from the top tick to the immediately adjacent one, indicated by a short movement trace.

JLPT N4nounLevel estimated by Bebop

秒びょう

byou

second

Example sentences

私わたしの時計とけいは１日にちに５秒びょう進すすみます。
My watch gains five seconds a day.
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私わたしは３０秒びょうの差さで電車でんしゃに乗のり遅おくれた。
I missed the train by thirty seconds.
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彼かれは１００ｍを１１秒びょうフラットで走はしった。
He ran 100 meters in 11 seconds flat.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 秒

秒second (1/60 minute)Onビョウ

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