Illustration: At a fork on a wooded Japanese hiking trail, a hiker holds a small round compass flat in an open palm. Its glass-covered dial has simple ticks and a clearly visible two-ended needle on a central pivot.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

コンパス

konpasu

directional compass

Example sentences

コンパスは北きたを示しめす。
Compasses point north.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
ハイカーは森もりの中なかでも方向ほうこうが分わかるように、コンパスを携帯けいたいする必要ひつようがある。
Hikers need to carry a compass with them to find their way through the woods.
Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source
コンパスは凍こおりついて用ようを成なさず、地図ちずを頼たよりに、ほぼ勘かんに頼たよっての行軍こうぐんとなっていた。
They marched following their instincts, relying on the map because the compass was frozen and didn’t work.
KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

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