Illustration: At a Japanese home kitchen counter, a child waits for tea to finish steeping beside a glass sand timer. A thin stream of sand still falls through its neck, with some remaining above and a growing mound below.

JLPT N5nounLevel estimated by Bebop

時じ間かん

jikan

time

Example sentences

  1. 私わたしは時間じかんがない。

    I am out of time.

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  2. まだ時間じかんがある。

    There is yet time.

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  3. 起おきる時間じかんよ。

    Time to get up.

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Kanji in 時間

  • 時time; hourOnジKunとき
  • 間space; intervalOnカン・ケンKunあいだ・ま・あい

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