Illustration: From a hillside lookout above a Japanese fishing town, a child follows the coast with an outstretched finger. Below, the boundary between land and sea curves around a sandy inlet, a rocky headland, a small harbor, and another distant bay.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

海かい岸がん線せん

kaigansen

coastline, shoreline

Example sentences

  1. 海岸線かいがんせんに沿そって航海こうかいせよ。

    Sail along the coast.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 入いり組くんだ海岸線かいがんせん

    a complicated coastline

    Wiktionary · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

  3. この区間くかんは主おもに海岸線かいがんせんに沿そって走はしるため、車窓しゃそうからの風景ふうけいは非常ひじょうに良よい。

    Trains run along the sea coast in this section, and the scenery from the windows is excellent.

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

Kanji in 海岸線

  • 海sea; oceanOnカイKunうみ
  • 岸beachOnガンKunきし
  • 線line; trackOnセンKunすじ

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