Illustration: At a neighborhood pottery workshop, a participant lifts a circular cutter straight off a flattened slab of clay, revealing a clean round disk. The disk lies flat and unobstructed, with an even circumference.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

円えん形けい

enkei

circular shape

Example sentences

  1. 円形えんけいの軌道きどうに沿そって、地球ちきゅうをめぐっている。

    It is orbiting around the Earth along a circular path.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 円形えんけいの薄うすい鏡かがみで、通常鏡つうじょうきょうを支ささえる台だいとともに用もちいられる。

    It is a round thin mirror, generally used along with a base for supporting the mirror.

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

  3. 形かたちは棒状ぼうじょうのものから十字型じゅうじがた、円形えんけいのものまである。

    The shape ranges from stick, crisscross to round.

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

Kanji in 円形

  • 円circle; yenOnエンKunまるい・まる・まど
  • 形shape; formOnケイ・ギョウKunかた・かたち・なり

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