Illustration: On the narrow veranda of a Japanese home, a gardener kneels beside a large ceramic planter with a jagged fissure running from its rim down the side. The two sides remain attached, but water beads through the opening and trickles onto the paving.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

亀き裂れつ

kiretsu

crack, fissure, rift

Example sentences

  1. 耐震性たいしんせいの悪わるい建物たてものに亀裂きれつが生しょうじることもある。

    Also cracks may form in buildings that aren’t Earthquake proof.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 大仏だいぶつには、完成後数十年かんせいごすうじゅうねんにして亀裂きれつや傾かたむきが生しょうじる。

    In the decades following the completion, the Great Buddha had cracks and began to slant.

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

  3. また、墳丘ふんきゅうからは過去かこの地震じしんによると思おもわれる亀裂きれつが多数発見たすうはっけんされている。

    Many cracks possibly caused by past earthquakes were also found on the tumulus.

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

Kanji in 亀裂

  • 亀tortoise; turtleOnキ・キュウ・キンKunかめ
  • 裂split; rendOnレツKunさく・さける

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