Illustration: At a Japanese family kitchen counter, a parent lifts a rabbit-shaped mold away from a mound of cooked rice. The rice has a rounded body, upright ears and a short tail, with individual grains clearly visible across its surface.

JLPT N1suffixLevel estimated by Bebop

状じょう

jou

shaped like, in the form of

Follows a noun to describe shape or form. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. スパゲッティは、細長ほそながいひも状じょうに作つくられたパスタの一種いちしゅです。

    Spaghetti is a type of pasta made in the shape of long thin strings.

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  2. 印面いんめんは薄うすい板いた状じょうになっている。

    The face of a seal has a form of thin plate.

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

  3. 主枝しゅえだは円柱えんちゅう状じょうで太ふとさ3-4mm。

    Main branches are cylindrical and have a thickness of 3-4 mm.

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

Kanji in 状

  • 状status quo; conditionsOnジョウ

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