Illustration: Outside a neighborhood flower shop, a worker kneels beside a row of identical plant pots and fits a short wooden spacer into the gap between two of them. Several completed gaps match the spacer exactly, while the final pot still sits too close to its neighbor.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

間かん隔かく

kankaku

interval, spacing

Example sentences

  1. バスは１５分ふん間隔かんかくで運転うんてんされている。

    There is a bus every fifteen minutes.

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  2. バスは２０分ふん間隔かんかくで運行うんこうされている。

    Buses are running at 20-minute intervals.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 小屋こやは５０メートルの間隔かんかくで建たてられた。

    The huts were built with a space of 50 meters in between.

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Kanji in 間隔

  • 間space; intervalOnカン・ケンKunあいだ・ま・あい
  • 隔isolate; alternateOnカクKunへだてる・へだたる

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