Illustration: In a small Japanese home kitchen, a gardener holds up an unusually slender cucumber fresh from a balcony planter. It is as long as the ordinary cucumber resting on the counter, but dramatically narrower from end to end.

JLPT N5i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

細ほそい

hosoi

thin, slender

Example sentences

彼かれは太ふとっているくせに声こえは細ほそい。
His voice is thin even though he is fat.
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彼女かのじょのウエストは細ほそい。
She has a small waist.
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その通とおりはとても細ほそいんだ。
The street is very narrow.
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Kanji in 細

細dainty; get thinOnサイKunほそい・ほそる・こまか

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