Illustration: On the floor of a Japanese community craft room, two wooden strips lie perpendicular to one another, crossing at their centres. A child pins the intersection firmly with one finger while an adult winds binding cord around it to make a simple kite frame.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

十じゅう字じ

juuji

cross shape

Example sentences

  1. 十字じゅうじキーを上うえへ!するとBGMが変かわり、背景はいけいは魔王まおうの居城きょじょうへ・・・。

    Hit up on the D-pad, and the background music will change as the background itself becomes the Demon King’s castle....

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 形かたちは棒状ぼうじょうのものから十字じゅうじ型がた、円形えんけいのものまである。

    The shape ranges from stick, crisscross to round.

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

  3. もっとも、近年きんねんでは単たんに十字じゅうじの仕切しきりを入いれた幕まくの内弁当うちべんとうに「松花堂弁当しょうかどうべんとう」の名なをつけるなどの混同こんどうもみられる。

    However, there has lately been some confusion over the difference with people calling a Makunouchi-bento in a box with cross-shaped partitions 'Shokado-bento.'

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

Kanji in 十字

  • 十tenOnジュウ・ジッ・ジュッKunとお・と・そ
  • 字character; letterOnジKunあざ・あざな

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