Illustration: In a small home kitchen, a cook carefully adds flour to a bowl on one pan of a balance scale. A fixed metal weight sits on the opposite pan, and the cook watches the beam while allowing just a final pinch of flour to fall. Their other hand holds a nearly empty scoop above the bowl.

JLPT N3verbLevel estimated by Bebop

量はかる

hakaru

to measure, to weigh

量る is used for weight or volume; 計る and 測る cover other measurements. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 優すぐれた教育きょういくの価値かちは金銭きんせんでははかれない。

    The value of a good education cannot be measured in terms of money.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 体温たいおんを計はかる。

    Take one’s temperature.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. その長ながさを測はかれますか。

    Can you measure the length?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 量

  • 量quantity; measureOnリョウKunはかる

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