Illustration: On a Japanese coastal cliff, a surveyor checks the elevation of a lookout platform above the calm sea. An assistant carefully lowers a long measuring tape vertically from the platform to a small survey float resting on the water directly below.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

海かい抜ばつ

kaibatsu

height above sea level

Example sentences

  1. この都市としは海抜かいばつ１６００メートルにある。

    This city is 1,600 meters above sea level.

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  2. その街まちは海抜かいばつ１５００メートルの所ところにある。

    The town is situated 1,500 meters above sea level.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. その山やまは海抜かいばつ約やく３０００メートルだ。

    The mountain is about 3000 meters above sea level.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 海抜

  • 海sea; oceanOnカイKunうみ
  • 抜slip out; extractOnバツ・ハツ・ハイKunぬく・ぬき・ぬける

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