Illustration: Two hikers pause on a rocky overlook above a landscape whose shapes are clearly exposed. A narrow ridge runs toward a rounded summit, one side drops sharply into a river valley, and the river opens onto a broad flat basin beyond.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

地ち形けい

chikei

terrain, topography

Example sentences

  1. Boston Dynamicsのロボット「RHex」は、いろんな地形ちけいを走はしれるすごいやつです。

    Boston Dynamic’s robot, RHex, is an amazing piece of work that can run over various terrains.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. それからその路線ろせんの通とおる最良さいりょうの道筋みちすじを決きめる必要ひつようがある。それは何なによりもその路線ろせんが通とおる地形ちけいによって決きまる。

    It then became necessary to settle the best route for the line to follow; and that was determined, in the first place, by the shape of the land it had to cross.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 暖あたたかい軽かるい空気くうきは山越やまごえすると上空じょうくうに上昇じょうしょうし、地上ちじょうには下おりてこないことなど、風かぜは地形ちけいによって変かわります。

    When warm, light, air crosses mountains it rises into the upper atmosphere and does not fall back to the ground. In this, and other, ways wind changes with the terrain.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 地形

  • 地ground; earthOnチ・ジ
  • 形shape; formOnケイ・ギョウKunかた・かたち・なり

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