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JLPT N2na-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

人じん工こう的てき

jinkouteki

artificial, unnatural

Example sentences

  1. だが、トム、エスペラントはコンピュータと同等どうとうに人工的じんこうてきだというわけではないんじゃないか?

    But, Tom, Esperanto isn’t necessarily as artificial as computers are, right?

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 人工的じんこうてきなものでも砂紋すなもんと呼よぶことがあるが、多おおくは自然現象しぜんげんしょうによって生しょうじたものをさす。

    Although artificial undulations are also sometimes called samon, the samon usually refer to natural ones.

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

  3. 人工的じんこうてきな光ひかりは電力でんりょくという手段しゅだんによって作つくられた。

    Artificial light was produced using electricity.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · English by AI · Source

Kanji in 人工的

  • 人personOnジン・ニンKunひと
  • 工craft; constructionOnコウ・ク・グ
  • 的bull's eye; markOnテキKunまと

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