Illustration: On a Japanese highland pasture, a family spreads a picnic beside a gently undulating expanse of grass that continues far toward distant hills. Nearby, the land drops steeply into a deep valley containing tiny roads and clustered houses, clearly revealing the pasture's elevation.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

高こう原げん

kougen

plateau, highland

Example sentences

  1. 高原こうげんを散歩さんぽするのは楽たのしい。

    It’s pleasant to take a walk on the plateau.

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  2. ここでは、レタス・キャベツ・セロリなどの高原こうげん野菜やさいを栽培さいばいしています。

    Tableland vegetables are grown here, such as lettuce, cabbage, and celery.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. しかしバス停ていから高原こうげんまでは、1kmほど歩あるかなければならない。

    However, visitors have to walk about one kilometer from the bus stop to the plateau.

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

Kanji in 高原

  • 高tall; highOnコウKunたかい・たか・たかまる
  • 原meadow; originalOnゲンKunはら

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