Illustration: At a Japanese ceramics workshop, a potter proudly presents an exceptionally long, narrow rectangular serving plate across both outstretched hands. Its slim width accommodates only one small dumpling at a time, while a long single-file row of dumplings stretches almost from one end to the other.

JLPT N2i-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

細ほそ長ながい

hosonagai

long and narrow

Example sentences

  1. 厚あつめの輪切わぎりにするほか、細長ほそながく切きって入いれる場合ばあいもある。

    Slice it into thick rings or strips.

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

  2. 鯖さばの半身はんしんを使つかうため完成品かんせいひんは細長ほそながい形かたちとなり、切きり分わけて食たべる。

    The finished product has an elongate shape because one side of the mackerel is used, and is cut into bite-sized pieces at the time of eating.

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

  3. 飾かざりの下側したがわには細長ほそながい板状いたじょうのビラが下さがっている。

    Long and thin plate-like hanging ornaments are attached at the bottom.

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

Kanji in 細長

  • 細dainty; get thinOnサイKunほそい・ほそる・こまか
  • 長long; leaderOnチョウKunながい・おさ

A word like this on every new tab

The Bebop Chrome extension shows one illustrated Japanese word each time you open a new tab in Chrome, with its reading, meaning, kanji and three example sentences. Choose any mix of levels from N5 to beyond N1. It’s free, with no account.

The Bebop new tab showing 音楽, music, over an illustration of a family playing music at home, with three example sentences
Add to Chrome Free on the Chrome Web Store
For Chrome on a computer. See it on the Chrome Web Store