Illustration: A short section of a Japanese neighborhood footpath is enclosed by portable barriers while two workers install new paving. One kneels to position a fresh block; the other tips gravel into an unfinished gap beside neatly stacked materials.

JLPT N3no-adjectiveLevel estimated by Bebop

工こう事じ中ちゅう

koujichuu

under construction

Example sentences

  1. この道路どうろは工事中こうじちゅうのため通行止つうこうどめだ。

    This road is closed to traffic for construction work.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 一番右側いちばんみぎがわの車線しゃせんは現在げんざい工事中こうじちゅうである。

    The rightmost lane is now under construction.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  3. 両駅間りょうえきかんは案内表示あんないひょうじなども掲示けいじされているものの、当時とうじは歩道ほどうが狭せまく工事中こうじちゅうの区間くかんも多おおかった。

    Signs indicating the locations of the two stations were provided, but at the time the sidewalks were narrow and some construction work was under way in many portions of them.

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

Kanji in 工事中

  • 工craft; constructionOnコウ・ク・グ
  • 事matter; thingOnジ・ズKunこと・つかう・つかえる
  • 中in; insideOnチュウKunなか・うち・あたる

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