Illustration: On the floor of a Japanese living room, a child raises one end of a wooden play board onto a sturdy block. The board now forms a clear slope above the level flooring, and a small wheeled toy rolls toward the lower end.

JLPT N1suru verbLevel estimated by Bebop

傾けい斜しゃ

keisha

to slope, to tilt

Example sentences

その土地とちは川かわに向むかって緩ゆるやかに傾斜けいしゃしている。
The land slopes gently toward the river.
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屋根やねは鋭するどい角度かくどで傾斜けいしゃしている。
The roof slopes sharply.
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今川焼いまがわやき用ようの鉄板てっぱんには返かえしやすい様ように傾斜けいしゃがついている。
An imagawa-yaki pan is slanted in order to be able to turn over imagawa-yaki easily.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 傾斜

傾lean; inclineOnケイKunかたむく・かたむける・かたぶく
斜diagonal; slantingOnシャKunななめ・はす

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