Illustration: At a ceramics workshop in Japan, a potter packs three small sculptural pieces of approximately equal height and material into custom protective inserts. One is spherical, one cubic, and one shaped like a rounded star. Each recess follows its object's exact contour.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

形けい状じょう

keijou

shape, form

Example sentences

  1. 地球ちきゅうはオレンジのような形状けいじょうです。

    The earth is shaped like an orange.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 形状けいじょうは着物きものに似にている。

    Its shape is similar to that of kimono.

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

  3. 形状けいじょうは三角形さんかっけいである例れいが多おおい。

    There are many examples for which the shape is triangular.

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

Kanji in 形状

  • 形shape; formOnケイ・ギョウKunかた・かたち・なり
  • 状status quo; conditionsOnジョウ

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