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JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

偏かたよる

katayoru

to be unbalanced

Example sentences

  1. ハンバーガーばかり食たべていると、栄養えいようが偏かたよるよ。

    Your diet is going to be really unbalanced if all you eat is hamburgers.

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  2. 法学ほうがく・経済学けいざいがく・社会学しゃかいがくなどの特定とくていの分野ぶんやに偏かたよらず、社会科学しゃかいかがくの幅広はばひろい領域りょういきを学まなぶ。

    The students can study a wide range of social science without giving too much weight to particular fields such as law, economics, sociology, and so on.

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

  3. ただ、乗客増加じょうきゃくぞうかが堅田かただ、小野付近おのふきんまでに偏かたよっているため、多おおくの普通列車ふつうれっしゃは堅田かただまたは近江舞子おうみまいこで折おり返かえす。

    Because the number of passengers using the Kosei Line increased significantly at Katata Station and Ono Station, many local trains return at Katata Station or Omi-Maiko Station.

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

Kanji in 偏

  • 偏partial; sideOnヘンKunかたよる

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