Illustration: In a small Japanese home kitchen, a cook has arranged three identical measuring scoops across the rim of a large mixing bowl. Two contain equal, level portions of white rice; the third contains an equally full portion of barley. A child steadies the bowl while studying the three scoops.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

比ひ率りつ

hiritsu

ratio, proportion

Example sentences

  1. 先進国せんしんこくの中なかでは日本にっぽんだけがイタリアよりも高齢者こうれいしゃの人口じんこう比率ひりつが高たかい。

    Only Japan has an older demographic than Italy among advanced countries.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 親おやに対たいする子こどもの比率ひりつが大おおきくなればなるほど子こどもを育そだてるのは難むずかしくなる。

    The higher the ratio of children to parents, the harder it is to bring up the children.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 原料げんりょうの大豆だいずと小麦こむぎの比率ひりつは半々程度はんはんていどである。

    The ratio between soybeans and wheat of raw materials of soy-sauce is half-and-half.

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

Kanji in 比率

  • 比compare; raceOnヒKunくらべる
  • 率ratio; rateOnソツ・リツ・シュツKunひきいる

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