Illustration: At a rural Japanese railway platform, a steam locomotive begins pulling two passenger carriages away from the station. Its cylindrical boiler, chimney, cab, large driving wheels, and connecting rods dominate the scene; the first carriage is visibly attached behind by a coupling.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

機き関かん車しゃ

kikansha

locomotive

Example sentences

  1. 機関車きかんしゃは長ながい貨物車かもつしゃの列れつを引ひっ張ぱって走はしっていた。

    The locomotive was pulling a long line of freight cars.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 明あけ方がた、私わたしたちは蒸気じょうき機関車きかんしゃの汽笛きてきで目めを覚さました。

    We were wakened by the whistle of the steam locomotive at dawn.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 蒸気じょうき機関車きかんしゃは電車でんしゃほどなめらかには走はしらない。

    Steam locomotives run less smoothly than electric trains.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

Kanji in 機関車

  • 機loom; mechanismOnキKunはた
  • 関connection; barrierOnカンKunせき・かかわる・からくり
  • 車carOnシャKunくるま

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