Illustration: A family spends an afternoon on a wide expanse of rounded stones beside a shallow Japanese river. The active stream runs along one side, while the exposed gravel extends toward a raised grassy levee on the other.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

河原かわら

kawara

riverbank, dry riverbed

Example sentences

  1. だいたい、この川原かわらの辺あたりを一巡ひとめぐりするのが、基本的きほんてきな朝あさのコースである。

    Generally once round this river side area is the basic morning course.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. また4番線ばんせんのホームは鴨川かもがわの河原かわらの上うえに張はり出だしていた。

    And Platform 4 overhung the riverbank of the Kamo-gawa River.

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

  3. 石室いしむろの床面ゆかめんには直径ちょっけい10～20センチメートルの多摩川たまがわの扁平へんぺいな川原かわら石せきが敷しかれていた。

    The chamber’s floor was covered with flat stones, 10 to 20 centimeters in diameter, which were carried from Tama-gawa River.

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

Kanji in 河原

  • 河riverOnカKunかわ
  • 原meadow; originalOnゲンKunはら

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