Illustration: On a school playground, a caretaker pushes a homemade chalk-marking frame fitted with two chalk holders at a fixed distance apart. It leaves two long, straight lines across the flat ground, with the same separation at the near end, middle, and far end.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

平へい行こう線せん

heikousen

parallel lines

Example sentences

  1. 現代げんだいのものは平行線へいこうせんだがかつては放射線状ほうしゃせんじょうであり、阿弥陀如来像あみだにょらいぞうの光背こうはいに似にていることから。

    The origin of this word is that although Amidakuji at present is shown in parallel lines, formerly it was shown in radiating lines, which looked like the halo of an Amidanyorai statue.

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

  2. ノートに二本にほんの平行線へいこうせんを引ひいた。

    I drew two parallel lines in my notebook.

    Written by AI for Bebop

  3. この二本にほんの線せんは平行線へいこうせんだから、交まじわらない。

    These two lines are parallel, so they don’t intersect.

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Kanji in 平行線

  • 平even; flatOnヘイ・ビョウ・ヒョウKunたいら・たいらげる・ひら
  • 行go; carry outOnコウ・ギョウ・アンKunいく・ゆく・おこなう
  • 線line; trackOnセンKunすじ

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