Illustration: At a shallow river beside a Japanese residential neighborhood, a child crouches on the grassy bank and reaches toward a little wooden boat caught among reeds. Both shoes remain firmly on dry earth while the boat floats just beyond the uneven waterline.

JLPT N3nounLevel estimated by Bebop

岸きし

kishi

shore, riverbank

Example sentences

  1. 岩いわが岸きしから川かわに突つき出でていた。

    A rock stuck out from the bank into the river.

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  2. 私わたしたちは湖みずうみの岸きしに沿そって歩あるいた。

    We walked along the shore of the lake.

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  3. ボートは岸きしの近ちかくを進すすんだ。

    The boat hugged the shore.

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Kanji in 岸

  • 岸beachOnガンKunきし

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