Illustration: In a Japanese community hall, two volunteers unfold a freestanding accordion partition across the floor. Its connected panels form a clearly visible sequence of sharp alternating turns, with each hinge changing direction from the previous one.

JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

ジグザグ

jiguzagu

zigzag

Example sentences

道みちは急斜面きゅうしゃめんをジグザグにのぼっていた。
The path zigzagged up the steep slope.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
ＵＦＯは飛行機ひこうきとは到底思とうていおもえないジグザグの動うごきで、東ひがしの山やまに飛とんでいった。
The UFO, with a zigzag movement you couldn’t think of as being a plane, flew off into the mountains in the east.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
子こどもが紙かみにジグザグの線せんを描えがきました。
A child drew a zigzag line on the paper.
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