Illustration: At a Japanese school science bench, a student peers through a sturdy microscope while carefully turning its focusing knob. A glass slide holding a tiny drop of pond water is secured beneath the objective lens, and a pipette rests beside the slide box.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

顕けん微び鏡きょう

kenbikyou

microscope

Example sentences

顕微鏡けんびきょうの焦点しょうてんを合あわせなさい。
Adjust the microscope’s focus.
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彼かれは顕微鏡けんびきょうをのぞいていた。
He was looking through a microscope.
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彼かれはそのスライドを顕微鏡けんびきょうで見みた。
He looked at the slide under the microscope.
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Kanji in 顕微鏡

顕appear; existingOnケンKunあきらか・あらわれる
微delicate; minutenessOnビKunかすか
鏡mirror; speculumOnキョウ・ケイKunかがみ

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