Illustration: At a community craft table, a child draws an ellipse on a sheet of plain paper using a loop of string around two fixed pins. The pencil pulls the string taut at the outer edge of a nearly completed curve. Viewed from above, the shape is unmistakably longer than it is wide, with smooth rounded ends.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

楕だ円えん

daen

ellipse, oval

Example sentences

  1. 卵たまごは、真まん丸まるではなく楕円だえんです。

    An egg is not round but oval.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. シリウスを回まわる軌道きどうは楕円だえん形けいである。

    The orbit around Sirius is elliptical.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 楕円だえん形けいや四角形しかっけいの物ものもあるが、一般的いっぱんてきには円形えんけいをしている。

    Usually they are round, but some are oval or square.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 楕円

  • 楕ellipseOnダ・タ
  • 円circle; yenOnエンKunまるい・まる・まど

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