Illustration: Inside a Japanese science museum, a child stands beneath a huge suspended model of Earth, looking up with their mouth open. The sphere shows recognizable continents, expansive oceans and curling cloud systems, with East Asia and the Japanese islands turned toward the visitors.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

地ち球きゅう

chikyuu

Earth

Example sentences

  1. 汚染おせんが地球ちきゅうを傷きずつけている。

    Pollution is damaging our earth.

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  2. 地球ちきゅうは丸まるい。

    The earth is round.

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  3. 地球ちきゅうは自転じてんする。

    The earth rotates.

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Kanji in 地球

  • 地ground; earthOnチ・ジ
  • 球ball; sphereOnキュウKunたま

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