Illustration: In a Japanese science museum, a child operates a transparent tabletop weather model containing miniature Japanese hills and houses. Fine suspended ribbons reveal air descending through the central column and then spreading outward near the ground.

JLPT N2nounLevel estimated by Bebop

高こう気き圧あつ

koukiatsu

high-pressure system

Example sentences

  1. 同おなじごろ、太平洋中部たいへいようちゅうぶの洋上ようじょうでも高気圧こうきあつが勢力せいりょくを増まし、範囲はんいを西にしに広ひろげてくる。

    Around the same time, also on the sea in the middle of Pacific Ocean, an anticyclone increases its strength and enlarges its area to the west.

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

  2. 春はるになると、揚子江気団ようすこうきだんは東ひがしの日本列島にっぽんれっとうや朝鮮半島ちょうせんはんとうなどに移動性いどうせい高気圧こうきあつを放出ほうしゅつする。

    In spring, the Yangtze River air mass sends migratory high-pressure systems east toward the Japanese archipelago and the Korean Peninsula.

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

  3. 一方いっぽう、華北かほくや朝鮮半島ちょうせんはんとう、東日本ひがしにっぽんでは、高気圧こうきあつと低気圧ていきあつが交互こうごにやってくる春はるのような天気てんきが続つづく。

    Meanwhile, northern China, the Korean Peninsula, and eastern Japan continue to have springlike weather, with high- and low-pressure systems arriving in turn.

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

Kanji in 高気圧

  • 高tall; highOnコウKunたかい・たか・たかまる
  • 気spirit; mindOnキ・ケKunいき・き
  • 圧pressure; pushOnアツ・エン・オウKunおす・へす・おさえる

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