Illustration: At a Japanese community workshop, a child turns the hand crank of a sturdy tabletop mechanism while an adult steadies its wooden base. Two exposed metal gears of different sizes mesh clearly tooth to tooth; the smaller gear drives a spindle carrying a little wooden bird.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

ギア

gia

gear

Example sentences

  1. ギアからチェーンが外はずれた

    the chain came off the gear

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  2. 坂道さかみちの前まえに自転車じてんしゃのギアを変かえた。

    I changed my bike’s gear before the hill.

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  3. 古ふるい時計とけいのギアが回まわらなくなった。

    A gear in the old clock stopped turning.

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