Illustration: Outside a small neighborhood greengrocer, the owner adjusts a hinged awning while a coworker tests the narrow pavement with a loaded delivery cart. Lowering the awning shades the outdoor vegetables and a waiting customer, but its edge obstructs the tall cart.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

兼かね合あい

kaneai

balance between competing factors

Often used as 〜との兼ね合いで. Note written by AI.

Example sentences

  1. 両者りょうしゃの兼かね合あいからは、小指こゆびが入はいる程度ていどのものが適てきしている。

    In view of balancing these two, the little finger-sized mouth of tokkuri is the best choice.

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

  2. 出荷しゅっかするときには酒税法しゅぜいほうの規定きていとの兼かね合あいもあり、また消費者しょうひしゃが低ていアルコール度どを好このむという事情じじょうもあって、目的もくてきとするアルコール度数どすうまで下さげる必要ひつようがある。

    When shipping, in relation to the provisions of the Liquor Tax Act, and because that consumers prefer low alcohol-concentration, it is necessary to lower the alcohol concentration to a desired level.

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

  3. 更さらに、上うえの身分みぶんの者ものが奉公ほうこうなどの褒賞ほうしょうとして下したの者ものに下賜かしされた衣装いしょうを実際じっさいに着用ちゃくようした場合ばあいには、儒教じゅきょうの忠ちゅうの観念かんねんとの兼かね合あいから黙認もくにんせざるを得えなかった。

    Also, when lower-ranked people put on clothes granted by higher-ranked people for their good service, this had to be tolerated from the viewpoint of Confucius’s teaching of loyalty.

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

Kanji in 兼合

  • 兼concurrently; andOnケンKunかねる
  • 合fit; suitOnゴウ・ガッ・カッKunあう・あい・あい-

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